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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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English

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Episode from Dec 23, 2024

12/23/2024
Fotheringay - "Winter Winds" - Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay [alternate take, 1970] [0:00:00] Janice Burns and Jon Doran - "Green Grows the Holly" - Great Joy to the New [0:04:32] The Rheingans Sisters - "Bradmarsch" - Start Close In [0:07:42] Eliza Carthy - "The Trees They Do Grow High" - No Wasted Joy [0:09:32] Landless - "Blackwaterside" - Lúireach [0:12:55] Steeleye Span - "Gaudete" - The Harvest of Gold: The English Folk Almanac [live in 1974] [0:15:34] Cooper and Toller - "There Is a Fountain of Christ's Blood" - Year's End [0:18:11] The Watersons - "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand" - Frost & Fire: A Calendar of Ceremonial Folk Songs [0:22:14] Horslips - "Do'n oiche ud i mbeithil" - Drive the Cold Winter Away ["That Night in Bethlehem"] [0:24:14] The Albion Dance Band - "On Christmas Night All Christians Sing" - The Prospect Before Us [From 1976] [0:27:24] Jackie Oates and John Spiers - "Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending" - A Midwinter's Night [0:31:02] Steve Ashley - "The Spirit of Christmas" - Electric Muse: The Journey from Folk into Rock [0:35:12] The Green Child - "Easy Window" - Look Familiar [0:52:16] La Femme - "Yeah Baby" - Rock Machine [0:55:30] Hot Tubs Time Machine - "Button Man" - Food & Ruins [0:58:47] The Nails - "Things You Left Behind" - Dangerous Dreams [1:03:00] Anthony Moore - "Judy, Judy" - Home of the Demo [80s sometime] [1:07:05] Elizabeth Fraser - "At Last I Am Free" - Rough Trade 25 [1:10:55] Allen Lowe & The Constant Sorrow Orchestra` - "Blue Mist" - Louis Armstrong's America Volume 1 [1:15:56] Hot 8 Brass Band - "Ain't No Sunshine" - Big Tuba [instrumental version] [1:19:00] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s played in a row for about a half-hour The Cowsills - "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-Six-Six)" - single [1:33:05] Lindisfarne - "Lady Eleanor" - single [1:36:03] Pointer Sisters - "Slow Hand" - single [1:39:32] Lorna Bennett - "It Hurt's to Want It So Bad" - single [that's how the label reads] [1:43:20] Fine Young Cannibals - "Johnny Come Home" - single [1:46:29] The Duprees - "Ginny" - single [1:50:01] Mel Tillis - "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back" - single [1:52:23] Dean Martin - "Memories Are Made of This" - single [1:55:23] Set: Recreating Side A of the mix-tape "Winter Aconite," Stuart Murdoch to Stuart David, 1995 Young Marble Giants - "Salad Days" - Colossal Youth [2:07:59] The Blue Aeroplanes - "Veils of Colour" - friendloverplane [2:11:06] Felt - "Hours of Darkness Have Changed My Mind" - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word [From 1986] [2:12:38] Everything But the Girl - "Ballad of the Sad Times" - Love Not Money [2:17:18] The Weather Prophets - "Almost Prayed" - Scared to Get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop 1980-1989 [From 1986] [2:20:41] Cocteau Twins - "Oomingmak" - Victorialand [2:23:19] Josef K - "Sorry for Laughing" - Entomology [From 1981] [2:25:57] The Railway Children - "Brighter" - 12" single [2:29:03] Wire - "Outdoor Miner" - Chairs Missing [From 1978] [2:33:45] The Servants - "Afterglow" - Youth Club Disco [From 1989] [2:35:28] Stereolab - "High Expectation" - Switched On [2:38:59] The Pop Group - "Savage Sea" - Y [2:42:56] The Go-Betweens - "Streets of Your Town" - Bellavista Terrace: Best of the Go-Betweens [From 1988] [2:45:14] Tindersticks - "City Sickness" - Working for the Man [From 1993] [2:48:51] Belle and Sebastian - "I Took Some Time for Christmas" - No Album [live on John Peel, 18 December 2002] [2:52:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147373

Duration:03:07:51

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Episode from Dec 16, 2024

12/16/2024
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - "Peace Prayer" - All Is Sound [0:00:00] Will Samson - "Loshult" - Songs of Beginning and Belonging [0:05:38] Isik Kural - "After a Rain" - Moon in Gemini [0:10:43] Dialect - "Recreation Story / Born Through" - Atlas of Green [0:12:46] The Ghostwriters - "Rococo Rondo" - Remote Dreaming [From 1985] [0:17:43] Cimiotti - "Federico by the Sea" - Homelife [0:25:55] Silvan Strauss - "Free" - Flukin' [0:28:31] Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - "Siren and Secrets" - The Invisible Road: Original Recordings 1985–1990 [0:31:25] Bulgarka Folk Trio - "Tri Byulbyula Peyat (Three Nightingales Are Singing)" - Bulgarka Folk Trio [0:32:18] Giorgos Katsaros - "Now I Take Them" - Giorgos Katsaros [From 1928] [0:35:16] Hedningarna - "Aivoton" - Kaksi! [From 1992] [0:39:40] Brian Finnegan - "The Holly Bush / Hanley's Tweed / The Long Drop / The Flooded Road of Glenties" - Shepherds [0:43:04] The Gloworms - "Kit Whites I & II" - The Imagined Village [0:47:50] Tiger Moth - "Sloe on the Uptake" - The Imagined Village [0:52:36] The Boyoyo Boys - "Duba Duba" - Back in Town [0:56:03] Dora Morelenbaum - "A Melhor Saida" - Pique [1:09:36] Kazdoura - "Khayal" - single [1:13:07] Beduoine and Sylvie - "Can You Tell" - Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan [1:16:22] Margo Guryan - "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You" - 25 Demos [From 1967] [1:19:01] The Buoys - "Sunny Days/Memories" - Golden Classics [R.I.P. Billy Kelly] [1:20:53] Laura Marling - "Caroline" - Patterns in Repeat [1:25:53] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour James Booker - "Cool Turkey" - single [1:34:47] Jimmy Lewis - "I'm Stepping Out" - single [1:36:47] Toots & The Maytals - "Pomps and Pride, Part 2" - single [1:39:16] The Bobbettes - "I Shot Mr. Lee" - single [1:42:10] The Everly Brothers - "I Don't Want to Love You" - single [1:44:15] Allman Brothers Band - "Midnight Rider" - single [1:46:58] Hot Ice - "Boogie Joogie - Pt. I" - single [1:49:55] Sondra Locke - "I Seek the Night" - single [1:53:06] Peter Gabriel - "Shosholoza" - single [1:55:01] Lipstique - "Mah-Nah-Mah-Nah" - At the Discotheque [2:13:12] Ernie and His Rubber Duckie - "Rubber Duckie" - Sesame Street Fever [2:15:59] Novelty Disco Band - "I Love Your Big Bassoon" - single [2:20:24] Morris Jefferson - "A Spanking Good Time" - Spank Your Blank Blank [2:23:17] Silver Blue - "Good Vibrations" - Silver Blue [2:28:17] Eli's Second Coming - "Eli's Coming" - Eli's Second Coming [2:33:00] The Walter Murphy Band - "Flight '76" - A Fifth of Beethoven [2:37:37] John Davis and the Monster Orchestra - "Kojak Theme" - Ain't That Enough for You [2:41:08] Silver Convention - "No, No, Joe" - Silver Convention [2:47:21] The Salsoul Orchestra - "The Little Drummer Boy" - Christmas Jollies [2:51:23] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147128

Duration:03:08:21

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Episode from Dec 9, 2024

12/9/2024
The Mills Brothers - "Bugle Call Rag" - Chronological Volume 2 [From 1932] The Three Keys - "Jig Time" - The Big Broadcast [From 1932] Five Jinks - "Za Zu Swing" - The Human Orchestra: Rhythm Quartets in the Thirties [From 1937] The Boswell Sisters - "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" - Shout, Sister, Shout! [From 1932] The Comedian Harmonists - "Creole Love Call" - The Comedian Harmonists [From 1932] The Dandridge Sisters - "Undecided" - Sweetest Harmony: 25 Vintage Harmony Groups [From 1939] Lewis Bronzeville Five - "It Can Happen to You" - Black Secular Vocal Groups Volume 3: 1923–1940 [From 1940] The Mississippi Mud Mashers - "Bring It On Home to Grandma" - Copulation Blues: Hot & Sexy 1926-1940 [From 1935] The Inkspots - "Your Feet's Too Big" - Hits of '35 [From 1935] The Cats and The Fiddle - "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" - We Cats Will Swing for You 1939-1940 Volume 1 [From 1939] British Birds - "Loco Motive" - single The Moles - "Chimes" - Composition Book Chime School - "The End" - The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel Brabrabra - "Gone" - Danger! Danger! Danger! Erlend Øye - "A While Ago and Recently" - Unrest Greg Lisher - "Finding the Future" - Underwater Detection Method Laetitia Sadier & Adrian Younge - "Purification" - Adrian Younge presents Linear Labs: Sao Paulo Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - "Ils disent" - Ventre Unique Latrala - "Agora" - Latrala Bill Nelson - "Empire of the Senses" - The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart) Stan Clear & The Closing Doors - "China My China" - Pulse Width Mods EP John Cooper Clarke - "Night People" - Zip Style Method [From 1982] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Krisma - "Nothing to Do with the Dog" - single Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces - "Searching for My Love" - single Melanie - "Ruby Tuesday" - single Wool - "In the Rest of My Life" - single Pop-Tops - "Mammy Blue" - single Bongo Herman & Bingy Bunny - "Ration" - single Don Robertson - "Buttons and Bows" - single Skeeter Davis - "It Was Only a Heart" - single Tex Ritter - "Deck of Cards" - single Pan-American - "The Cloud Room" - Cloud Room, Glass Room William Tyler - "Alpine Star" - Future Myths MD Pallavi & Andi Otto - "Look Again" - single Laurie Torres - "Golden T-Shirts" - Après Coup Brigid Mae Power - "You Don't Know Me" - Songs for You Marc Ellington - "Song for a Friend" - Rains/Reins of Changes [From 1971] Joni Mitchell - "Marcie" - Song to a Seagull [From 1968] Lianne La Havas - "Courage" - Lianne La Havas Diana Ross - "Reach Out, I'll Be There" - Surrender [From 1971] The Earl Scruggs Revue - "Mandolin Wind" - Strike Anywhere The Mills Brothers - "The Song Has Ended" - Chronological Volume 5 [From 1938] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/146905

Duration:03:08:26

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Episode from Dec 2, 2024

12/2/2024
Yehudi Menuhin / Ravi Shankar - "Rāga Piloo" - West Meets East Album 2 [0:00:00] Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock - "One" - Two Improvisations [0:16:50] The Corporation - "India" - The Corporation [covering Coltrane] [0:35:26] Robbie Basho - "A North American Raga (The Plumstar)" - Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan: The Lost Live Recordings [late '60s/early '70s] [1:06:06] Davide Cedolin - "Ca de Cavo (Empty House)" - Ligurian Pastoral [1:15:53] I Think Like Midnight - "Slant Rhyme" - single [1:24:17] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for nigh on a half-hour The Waterboys - "December" - single [1:30:37] Parrish & Gurvitz - "Janine" - single [1:36:55] Emmylou Harris - "Here, There and Everywhere" - single [1:40:49] The Joneses - "Hey Babe (Is the Gettin' Still Good?) Part 1" - single [1:44:19] Frank Mills - "Music Box Dancer" - single [1:47:33] John Hiatt - "I Spy (For the F.B.I.)" - single [1:50:46] The Apple - "Thank U Very Much" - single [1:53:19] Harvey and the Moonglows - "Ten Commandments of Love" - single [1:55:46] Set: Story Corner Josh White - "The Story of John Henry" - The Elektra Years [From 1955] [2:10:42] Ed McCurdy - "The Bold Fisherman" - Frankie & Johnny [2:33:00] The New Lost City Ramblers - "The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake" - Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways [From 1976] [2:34:39] The Band - "The Moon Struck One" - Cahoots [2:38:02] Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - "Long Black Veil" - Pioneering Women of Bluegrass [From 1965] [2:42:08] Russ "Big Daddy" Blackwell - "The Little Monster" - A Streak of Madness: Fool's Paradise 2024 Marathon Premium [From 1968] [2:45:27] Dolly Parton - "The Bridge" - Just Because I'm a Woman [2:47:31] Conway Twitty - "Sound of an Angel's Wings" - Darling, You Know I Wouldn't Lie [2:50:10] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/146675

Duration:03:08:07