Monday, March 28, 2022

Veldene VaVoom Invents The Shuffle, October 14, 1962.

Legacy screengrab by Foam-O-Fone© - all rights reserved, and a few of the lefts.

It's all too easy, in this digital age in which we're living in, to take for granted high-technology advances like the shuffle play on our audio device of choice - but do we ever stop to think how it came to be, and what genius had the inspiration for such a labor-saving device? [Nope - Ed.] 

Shuffle has become the dominant cultural form of our ADD epoch. Music streaming services, where what passes for personal taste is analysed, defined and predicted by an algorithm, are how The Young People Of Today® are spoon-fed music product while they text and meme other pod-people sitting in the same room. Little do they know they're being data-raped© by a concept invented back in 1962, way before any device was capable of incorporating it. Say hello to our Back Room Boffin and unsung heroine of the Audio Age, Veldene VaVoom [18 my ass - Ed.]! I talked to Ms. VaVoom via Foam-O-Fone™ yestiddy.

Dames n' rekkids! Like gum n' nuts!

FMF© Heyy! Veldene baby! Looking lu-uush!

VVV Likewise, I'm sure. Is that a toupe?

FMF© (laughs) Ha ha! Tell us about the birth of shuffle play, why don'cha!

VVV I was one stewed tomato! Chuggin' Johnnie Walker, dreamin' of being fucked in th' ass by Bobby Vinton. Anyway, all my rekkids was on th' carpet, an' I said, Veldene honey, you are too shitfaced to read th' labels, just pick 'em at random an' see if you remember th' fuck they are.

FMF© And invented shuffle play right there!

VVV (giggles) Ye-ah! A regliar Alfred Einstein!

FMF© Did you recognise the tunes?

VVV Who knows? I guess I must of passed out. When I came to, I was being fu-

[Connection lost - Ed.]


Sayy, fellows! Why not pay tribute to Veldene by setting your device of choice to shuffle and listing the first five plays in a comment? Oboy! Some fun, huh, guys? "Let's do this, people!"

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45 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 29, 2022 at 5:58 AM

    Plucked at random from the carpet with sticky fingers:

    Running Wild - Shoes
    Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
    Dawning Is The Day - The Moody Blues
    Loose Change - Bruce Springsteen
    Welcome Back - Neil Young

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  2. BabsMarch 29, 2022 at 7:11 AM

    Sonny Rollins - Reflections
    Grateful Dead - Let It Grow (1988-03-27 Hampton, VA. Bootleg)
    Bobby "Blue" Bland - Memphis Monday Morning
    Wayne Shorter - Dance Cadaverous
    George Harrison - Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp



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  3. Peanuts MolloyMarch 29, 2022 at 7:26 AM

    Los Lonely Boys - Heaven
    Arooj Aftab - Mohabbat
    Rainbow Ffolly - My Love Has Gone
    Ben Crosland Quintet - Waterloo Sunset
    Watermelon Slim - The Wheel Man

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  4. apaulingMarch 29, 2022 at 7:49 AM

    I'm Losin' The Feeling - Little Beaver
    Swinging Mama - Tiny Grimes
    Stardust - Jack Walrath
    Unforgettable - Nat "King" Cole
    If I Had You - Dinah Washington



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  5. RobMarch 29, 2022 at 3:56 PM

    I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am - Herman's Hermits
    Six Days on the Road - BR549 (Live in Bloomington, Indiana, 1992)
    Muskrat Love - Captain and Tennille
    The Other One - Grateful Dead (Winterland Arena, 31 Dec. 1972)
    Bumpy Weather in Newark - Raymond Scott

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 29, 2022 at 4:59 PM

      A rollercoaster of emotion there.

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    2. MrDaveApril 2, 2022 at 9:59 PM

      Ha! Was just playing Henery the Eighth for the family the other day!

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  6. BambiMarch 29, 2022 at 4:38 PM

    Junior Parker - Lady Madonna
    Steve Miller Band - Swingtown
    Mike Westbrook - Metropolis VI
    Isotope - Upward Curve
    Jonathan Wilson - New Home

    I went to a party 20ish years ago and my friend (lets call him Jake,'cus that's his name) was playing records and then just leaving the played records out of their sleeves at the side of the record player cabinet! It took a lot of will power on my part, not to point out the folly of this sort of behavior. Needless to say I've never gone to another of his parties.

    Thank goodness for Veldene VaVoom inventing the shuffle format we now can employ, if needed, on our shiny digital devises.

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  7. UncleRemusMarch 29, 2022 at 5:42 PM

    Web - Concerto for Bedsprings (i spider)
    NRBQ - Hymn Number 5 (NRBQ)
    John Zorn - Canto V (The Ninth Circle)
    Guided by Voices - Bunco Men (Mirrored Aztec)
    Failure - Water with Hands (Wild Type Droid)

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  8. Dave HeasmanMarch 29, 2022 at 8:18 PM

    Dave Bartholomew - Good Jax Boogie
    Orlons - Don't Let Go
    Free Design - My Brother Woody
    Leonard Feather's All Stars with Coleman Hawkins - Esquire Bounce
    Rhythm Aces - Crazy Jealous

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  9. SteveSharkMarch 29, 2022 at 10:22 PM

    Chicory Tip - Son of My Father
    Freddie King - Low Tide
    Tool - Pneuma
    The Roots - It's Been a Long Long Journey
    Quiver - Gone in the Morning


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  10. Clarence PuneMarch 29, 2022 at 10:28 PM

    Clarence Pune - "Admit I'm Right and I'll Buy You Some Deodorant"
    Clarence Pune - "Poor Sweet Septic Lamb"
    Clarence Pune - "You're Looking Deceptively Wholesome Tonight"
    Clarence Pune - "So Lovely in Your Crude Crude Way"
    Clarence Pune - "Bemused, Hostile Prick"

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    1. apaulingMarch 29, 2022 at 11:26 PM

      Mr. Pune, how do you possibly get your shuffle-play to work like that? I must add that I for one should be ever so grateful and pleased if you were to post these chunes! There seems to be a thematic thread running though them I'd love to explore.

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    2. Clarence PuneMarch 29, 2022 at 11:33 PM

      They are such rarities that I have to hoodwink my shuffle and sing them to myself in the shower.
      (You wouldn't want to be there.)

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    3. SteveSharkMarch 29, 2022 at 11:39 PM

      Just read the titles and it becomes a beautiful love poem.

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    4. BabsMarch 30, 2022 at 6:04 AM

      Such a romantic, our Mr. Pune.

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    5. Clarence PuneMarch 30, 2022 at 8:09 AM

      Babs, it all results from a lifetime attempt to find a rude rhyme for Barbara.

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    6. SteveSharkMarch 30, 2022 at 5:55 PM

      Scarborough?

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    7. SteveSharkMarch 30, 2022 at 7:49 PM

      Not rude - there's always Scunthorpe, but that won't rhyme.

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    8. Clarence PuneMarch 30, 2022 at 10:13 PM

      Scunthorpe. Hmmmmm? I must try that in Scrabble.

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    9. SteveSharkMarch 30, 2022 at 10:45 PM

      The name used to cause problems as the Wiki article below explains.

      I was in a band called "The Cock & Bull Band" and emails between the members and our agent often fell foul of mail filters.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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    10. BabsMarch 30, 2022 at 11:09 PM

      Good luck with the rhymes, Mr. Pune.

      Sayonara,
      Barbara

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    11. BambiMarch 30, 2022 at 11:30 PM

      There is a band on the south coast here called Liquor and Poker. Please don't take offense anyone, it's just another name for hard spirits and a card game, and nothing more. Stop sniggering at the back, it's not funny.

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    12. SteveSharkMarch 30, 2022 at 11:48 PM

      I read somewhere once that some jook/juke joints used to have a sign saying "Liqour at the front. Poker in the rear".

      Probably apocryphal?

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    13. Clarence PuneMarch 31, 2022 at 1:02 AM

      See what happens when your shuffle shows that you only listen to yourself singing your own songs.

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    14. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 31, 2022 at 1:35 AM

      Pretty sure that bar sign is real - seem to remember seeing a photy-graph.

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    15. apaulingMarch 31, 2022 at 1:51 AM

      Mr. Pune, I'm fairly convinced that we all sing our own songs all the time. It's just the ones who are overheard who sometimes face consequences.

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  11. SitarswamiMarch 29, 2022 at 11:01 PM

    Messengers - In the Jungle
    Grapefruit - Trying to Make it to Monday
    Elton John - Honey Roll
    Sandy Salisbury - Once I Knew a Little Dog
    Tim Hollier - And I Wait for That

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  12. GaryMarch 29, 2022 at 11:47 PM

    I considered putting my device on shuffle, but after what happened to Veldene, I decided not to risk it,

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  13. cdelintMarch 29, 2022 at 11:52 PM

    I'd always wondered how the shuffle got invented...

    Hamish Imlach - If It Wasn't for the Unions
    Tones and I - Bad Child
    David Grisman & Martin Taylor - Over the Rainbow
    Iron Country Sisters - Riverside
    Kristy Bromley - Absent Mother

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  14. One Buck GuyMarch 30, 2022 at 4:03 AM


    Glitter Gold Year - Eleanor Friedberger
    Friends - Led Zeppelin
    Five Feet And Rising - Johnny Cash
    Only Mama Knows - Paul McCartney
    Moonlight Lady - The Sutherland Brothers

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  15. Fanny BlancmangeMarch 30, 2022 at 6:04 AM

    Van Halen 'Why Can't This Be Love?'
    Depeche Mode 'Big Muff'
    Lee Morgan 'Absolutions' (at the Lighthouse)
    unknown artist 'Deep Purple'
    Christy Doran ao 'U7'

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  16. GreenockianMarch 30, 2022 at 4:01 PM

    My shuffle is called Serendipity and comes from the first track off a cd, 2 singles (45's to youse yins that is), and 2 tracks of this computer thingy:
    Gallops - Speak to me
    Medicine Head - One and one is one
    Dean Friedman - Lydia
    CPR - Almost cut my hair
    The Who - Danny and my ponies

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 30, 2022 at 4:46 PM

      That Medicine Head track ... remembered fondly.

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    2. SteveSharkMarch 30, 2022 at 5:43 PM

      They were on John Peel's Dandelion label.
      Pictures in the Sky was a great track, too.

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    3. SteveSharkMarch 30, 2022 at 6:22 PM

      Best of Medicine Head - crappy bitrate, but it's the only album I have with those two singles on.

      https://workupload.com/file/sEBs83retPQ

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    4. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 31, 2022 at 1:36 AM

      "Crappy bitrate"? No such thing. Thank 'ee.

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  17. A Fine Old English NoblemonMarch 31, 2022 at 2:42 AM

    My lps and singles are all filed strictly alphebetically using the Asanyfulekno only correct system of Bob Dylan coming after The Band and before The Boomtown Rats. However my picture sleeves are filed seperarely from their singles in a totally random fashion. So as tribute to Miss Vavoom and her world changing invention here are the first five.

    https://www.imagenetz.de/irm4N

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 31, 2022 at 5:57 AM

      I note the rekkids are in their sleeves, and on a wype-klene™ surface. You are not a girl. This simple test could form the basis of a scientific standard of gender determination.

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    2. A Fine Old English NoblemonMarch 31, 2022 at 6:20 AM

      No, no, no, much worse than that, the rekkids are in plastic lined cardboard sleeves, and stored seperately.I still gave nightmares about my sisters' lps spread about without sleeves on her bedroom floor and her walking over them. Nuff sed.

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    3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIMarch 31, 2022 at 6:40 AM

      I've never known a male-type guy to strew records about on the carpet, not one, not ever. Yet I can think of three female-type guys who did this, sister included.

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  18. A Fine Old English NoblemonMarch 31, 2022 at 3:05 AM

    No Best of is complete without their first single His Guiding Hand off their first lp, so here his the cd reissue with extra added stuff : New Bottles Old Medicine.

    https://www.imagenetz.de/kJnom

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  19. draftervoiMarch 31, 2022 at 8:50 AM

    Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
    Ella Fitzgerald - The Chesapeake and Ohio
    Thea Gilmore - One Last Fight
    The Carlisles - No Help Wanted
    Funkadelic - Can You Get To That

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  20. MrDaveApril 2, 2022 at 10:12 PM

    The Bats - Ten to One
    Devo - Freedom of Choice
    Dead Kennedys - A Child and His Lawnmower
    Joan Jett - I'll Never Get Away
    Angel Olsen - Lark

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