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Music of your youth listening to the radio after midnight. Plenty of UFO songs and all the songs are music you've never heard by musicians you've...
Bought by WXXI Rochester and Prairie Public
- Added: Apr 03, 2020
- Length: 03:04:25
- Purchases: 2
A bit of indulgence before the semi-quarantine. (I'll have the third hour published early next week.)
Bought by Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, and WSLR
- Added: Mar 22, 2020
- Length: 02:54:27
- Purchases: 3
With Daylight Savings Time and gas service station songs. See, you never even thought there were songs about these topics.
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 03:44:36
The Writer takes over to program music and run the board.
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 02:52:49
The title says, well, not all of it but most of it. Don't miss the story of my friend who was run over by a train.
- Added: Mar 03, 2020
- Length: 03:10:26
The show got exciting so we went into overtime with a four hour show. Another radio musical at the front end.
- Added: Mar 01, 2020
- Length: 04:00:11
The feel of post WWII American was joyful, whimsical, hopeful and you can hear it in the music.
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 02:55:50
Songs about those roadside attractions that line the highway with billboards. Yep, there's plenty of songs about them even within the narrow "soun...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 03:19:34
- Purchases: 1
Ending the show with girl group songs about being "too young" to go steady, to get married, to fall in love, to tango, etc. Before that shmaltzy s...
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 03:33:08
Washington Phillips music placed next to contemporary musicians.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 02:06:23
I never guessed there would be so many singing groupies for Ringo Starr but you would never believe how many songs I didn't play because they were ...
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 02:55:32
- Purchases: 1
Cowboy meets jazz hepster in music.
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 02:52:14
Also, Robert Snow talks about his many local bands and songwriting.
- Added: Dec 31, 2019
- Length: 03:15:21
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but it appeals because this was the music that influenced the popular musicians of our ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 02:52:28
Same old dreck but with more drecky goodness.
- Added: Nov 09, 2019
- Length: 02:58:05
Nursery rhyme songs, Louisiana music, Sunday afternoon at the park music, and a couple aging women songs to end the show.
- Added: Oct 16, 2019
- Length: 03:04:49
It's topical theme night with songs about laughing and cigarettes. I've been playing with country and western songs that are swing jazz or boogie ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 07, 2019
- Length: 03:32:42
- Purchases: 1
And plenty of Louisiana music too. A good photo gallery of the musicians and music from the first hour of the show.
- Added: Sep 29, 2019
- Length: 02:54:17
I went to music church during the fourth hour. Shuddering with my eyes closed and stomping my foot.
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 03:54:59
The Writer talks about Russ Titelman, sound alikes, harmony, and she whinnies like her last half dozen fried horses.
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 02:51:30
The shortest description of all -
- Added: Sep 14, 2019
- Length: 03:00:27
Rickie Lee Jones stops in to play radio with me.
- Added: Sep 07, 2019
- Length: 03:02:35
Dreck, dreck, goose. I meant, dreck, dreck, Southern Soul
- Added: Sep 01, 2019
- Length: 02:54:49
Last few weeks I've been trying to find the original "sound of Saturday Night." I think I'm always searching for this elusive muse but recently by...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 02:53:45
- Purchases: 1
It's an undefinable sound. Maybe just a feel or a whimsy that makes the Saturday night sound. I dove deep again this week to find it.
Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public
- Added: Aug 21, 2019
- Length: 02:55:54
- Purchases: 2