From Foot Stompin' to Fame


Jarvis enjoyed watching some darts this week. Left over from the Bowie special, David Bowie and John Lennon recall how the track Foot-Stompin' evolved into the hit Fame. From the late Gil Scott-Heron's memoir, The Last Holiday, Jarvis reads excerpts about Stevie Wonder and MLK Day. Ivor Cutler helps us to relax, then we're re-invigorated by the first drum solo on record. Today in 2001, Wikipedia was launched. Founder Jimmy Wales describes the values, aims and practices of the site; but could Jarvis manage to structure the show without it? He leafs through the newspaper, unearths mouldy records from the cellar, gets tips from friends and shares record shop finds. Will Jarvis go all floppy like a jellyfish, or will he get hungry like the wolf? Birthdays: Meret Becker, Captain Beefheart, Ivor Cutler (performing poems and songs), Martin Luther King, Jr and Gene Krupa (banging the drums).


Lost Left — Mend
Franz Ferdinand — Darts of Pleasure
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — Zig Zag Wanderer
Meret Becker — For No-One
Ivor Cutler — Cockadoodledon't
The Flares — Foot Stompin'
David Bowie — Foot Stompin' (Live)
David Bowie — Fame
Darren Hayman — I Taught You How to Dance
Stevie Wonder — Fingertips (Album Version)
Dion — Abraham, Martin and John
Benny Goodman — Sing Sing Sing
DJ Yoda — One o' Clock Jump
Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters — The Messiah Is Falling
Le Volume Courbe — I Love the Living You
Judy Nylon — Information Rain
Radiohead — The Daily Mail
Electric Sound of Joy — Total Turn
Basil Kirchin — I Start Counting
Lee Hazlewood — The Night Before
Boduf Songs — 27th Raven's Head
Darkness Falls — Paradise Trilogy Pt II
Kim Sun — The Man Who Must Leave
The Camarata Contemporary Chamber Group — Idylle
Brute Force — Nobody Knows What's Goin' On in My Mind But Me