Episode 049: Thanksgiving Leftovers playlist for 11/27/2009

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Artist Title Album Label Link
Raymond Scott Twilight In Turkey Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights Columbia Records
Harry Nilsson Food Food Food Popeye (The Movie) Paramount Pictures
Cab Calloway Everybody Eats When They Come To My House Are You Hep to the Jive? Legacy Recordings
Spike Jones Wild Bill Hiccup Musical Depreciation Revue Anthology Rhino Records
The Robins Turkey Hop Pt. II Turkey Hop 7" Savoy Records
BBC Sound Effects Library Winter Migrant Waterfowl Animal and Birds BBC Records
Robert Krulwich Why A Turkey Is Called A Turkey [Excerpt I] Morning Edition NPR Radio
Nite Liters Serenade For A Jive Turkey Serenade For A Jive Turkey 7" RCA Records
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention Lonesome Electric Turkey Fillmore East - June 1971 Reprise Records
KARP A Turkey Named Brotherhood I'd Rather Be Clogging 7" Punk In My Vitamins? Records
The Fantômas Melvins Big Band The Turkey Doctor Millennium Monsterwork 2000 Ipecac Records
Rudy Greene Buzzard Pie The R&B Years 1947 Boulevard Vintage Records
Dead Milkmen The Best Thanksgiving Ever / Bitchin' Camaro If I Had A Gun Single Hollywood Records
BBC Sound Effects Library Resturant Sounds Suburbia BBC Records
Robert Krulwich Why A Turkey Is Called A Turkey [Excerpt II] Morning Edition NPR Radio
Maurice Simon & The Pie Men Sweet Potato Pie Carnival "Soul" Classics, Volume 4 Westwood Records
Billy Golden Turkey In The Straw 4011 Edison Records
The West Siders Candy Yams Candy Yams 7" Infinity Records
Booker T & The MG's My Sweet Potato [Excerpt] The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 Stax Records
Fats Waller All This Meat & No Potatoes [Excerpt] The Very Best of Fats Waller RCA Records
James Brown (Do The) Mashed Potatoes Roots of a Revolution Polydor Records

The feast is always fun, but in the days that follow there's always too many leftovers, in nearly every sense of the word. Rather than fear the enemy that lurks within our own homes, we decided to face this head on, and bring you a little show called, "Thanksgiving Leftovers." There was so much this year, it seeped into the music. Expect plenty of turkey, potatoes galore, a case of the hiccups, and food, food, food.

I was particularly excited to locate an appropriate recording by one of my radio idols, Robert Krulwich, better known these days as the "other half" of the Radiolab team. I've been a fan of Robert ever since I saw him hanging with They Might Be Giants back in the day, and I knew as soon as I sat down to put together this show, I had to include his piece on the word turkey. Most everything else fit around that.

As mentioned on air, special thanks to Isosceles Diego for slipping me a number of great soul songs that featured leftover themes. He let me come over and gorge myself on his own edible leftovers as we entered into an Armando Iannucci / Emperor Of The North media marathon, which was a stand-up think for him to do, and a great way to coax food-themed soul music out of him. This show improved 100% with his additions.

See ya in seven.