OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING PLAYS.

hello, it's e from the eels and i have hijacked the program and i wanted to
start off my hijacking with Ray Charles and Oh What A Beautiful Morning. 
and i have found, personally, that it is... impossible to have a bad day
after listening to it.  and believe me, i've tried, but it just can't
happen.  so.  now that your day is looking up, let's continue the hijacking.
  please fasten your seatbelts, put your tray tables and seat backs in the
upright position.  it's gonna be a bumpy ride, but its's gonna be a feel
good program.  so let's see, let's move on now... i grew up in Virginia, and
you pretty much had to listen to Willie Nelson where i grew up. but, it
turns out that that was one of the few things that i had to do in Virginia
that was a good thing.  and err, this song here is one of my favourites, and
i think this might even be Willie's own favourite, of the songs he's
written.  so here is Willie Nelson and Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground.

Thank you Willie.  or, as his close friends call him, Bill.  and now let's
see, we've got something that you probably are not familiar with in this
country. and err, people in my country, United States of America, are not
really that familiar with it either.  there's this claymation tv program
made in 1966 called Mad Monster Party.  and they used to play it every year
around Halloween when i was a little kid, and then they just gave up after a
while.  and y'know, i think it's really fun to look at, and it has this
claymation woman in it named Franchesca that i'd been obsessed with for many
years.  but she is a clay puppet... i should point out.  errr, anyway, they
stopped playing it after a while.  but anyway, the soundtrack never came out
until, like, a year ago.  and so here's the them song from Mad Monster Party
by Ethel Ennis.

aahhh yes.  e from the eels here.  we're back to my hijacking.  i'm taking
this place to Afghanistan, and errr, i'll explain that later.  so, we're
listening to... that was Ethel Ennis and Mad Monster Party, the title track
from the soundtrack.  Ethel also, i have this old vinyl record of hers
called Lullaby For Loser, which i wish i had thought of first, it would be a
great eels album title.  but, it's already been done, so... let's move on
now to the Velvet Underground.  this song i like a lot.  first of all,
'cause it features the cillest (spelling?)- it's the first instrument you
hear, and it's one of my favourite instruments.  often it's mispronounced as
the "sillest", but i believe it's called the "chillest", and it's a little
keyboard that plays bells, basically.  and err, here it is, and i don't know
what time of day it is, but it's always Sunday morning if you're in the
Velvet Underground.

it's e from the eels here, continuing with my hijacking, playing all the
music that the kids love, and err, here's one that the kids surely dig.  we
play this one sometimes before we go on stage to err, y'know... we're shy
people, and we get a little nervous, y'know, we gotta go out and deliver so
that...  Sammy Davis Junior is, er was, the king of the positive thinking
singers.  and this, there's one particular line in this song that really
works for me, and he says " 'Gee i'm afraid to go on' has turned into 'yes i
can' ".

oh yeah.  yes you can.  you have the power of the positive thinking and
whatever you're doing right now: just pull over if you're in you car.  look
in the rear view mirror and say to yourself "yes, yes i can".  if you're at
home, go into the bathroom and look in the bathroom mirror and say "yes   i
can".  and yes you can.  this is e of the eels.  it's my new positive
thinking phase.  hope you can take it.  let's see.  next, this is a very
interesting song.  this is a song that was originally a big hit, in the
States anyway, called Ooh Child, by the Five Stair Steps, and this is Nina
Simone's interpretation.  and i'm gonna go soon, but thanks for letting me
hijack you, and carjack you, and let's do this again real soon.

alright, it's e from the eels, and i've hijacked the plane and it's now
safely landed in Afghanistan, so i'm gonna be on my way now, and i wanna
thank you.  it's been a pleasure to hijack xfm, and i hope that you enjoy
this, i hope that you didn't turn the radio down all the way when i was
talking: but i don't blame you if you did.  i hope that you turned the music
up real loud though, and umm, next year i'll come back and i'll play
something from 'this' decade maybe.  alright?  that's my vow to you.  at
least one song in this decade.  anyway, y'know, i just wanted to play
something that might enlighten you or something.  but y'know, maybe that's a
mistake, maybe i went too far, did you think.. that i?  yeah, well, ah.  too
late now isn't it.  so anyway, thanks again, and please be careful and try
not to get hijacked or carjacked for the rest of the day.