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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 Jun 2, 2025

6/2/2025
Frank Wojnarowski and His Orchestra - "Dance to the Polka" - Polka Rock [0:00:00] Perry Como & the Fontane Sisters - "Hoop-Dee-Doo" - Hits of '50 [0:05:40] Bernie Witkowski and His Orchestra - "Chicken Hop Polka" - Chicken Hop Polka [0:08:40] Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra - "Baby Elephant Walk" - single [0:10:31] Bernie Witkowski and His Orchestra - "Polka Fun" - Polka Fun [0:13:35] Joe Rock and His Orchestra - "Girls from Jersey" - Rock Plays a Party [0:17:32] Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys - "Liza Pull Down the Shades" - Doughboys, Playboys And Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing [0:19:15] Stanky and His Pennsylvania Coal Miners - "Josie Open the Door" - Happy Days [0:21:25] Charles Magnante - "Dance of the Comedians" - Charles Magnante Plays the Accordion [0:25:31] The Showstoppers Accordion Orchestra - "Theme from Rocky" - Vol. 2 [0:33:28] Frank Wojnarowski and His Orchestra - "Old Kazoo" - Polka Rock [0:35:43] Temple City Kazoo Orchestra - "Miss You" - Some Kazoos [0:37:37] The Del Rubio Triplets - "Satisfaction" - Whip It [0:40:32] Dennis Chandler and Co.featuring Joel Rose, Dick Goddard, Jan Jones, The Ghoul, Tana Carli, and Dale Solly - "Oh, How We Love Those Pierogi" - single [0:45:45] Lil Wally - "Polska Kiolbasa" - Lil Wally's Greatest! Vol. 1 [0:49:08] The Polka Kings - "Shapiro's Polka" - single [0:51:41] Ray Henry and His Orchestra - "Princess Polka" - Polka Session with Ray Henry [0:54:21] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152706

Duration:01:08:36

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Party Favors from Jun 2, 2025

6/2/2025
David Wiffen - "One Step" - David Wiffen [From 1971] [0:00:00] The Watson Brothers Band - "Just Whistle" - Maybe I'm Dreaming [From 1974] [0:05:03] Bonnie Dobson - "Time" - American Baroque: Chamber Pop and Beyond 1967–71 [From 1969] [0:07:35] Penny Nichols - "Gone to Sorrow" - Colors of the Sun: Penny Nichols Sings the Early Songs of Jackson Browne [0:10:20] Peggy Seeger - "Slow" - Teleology [0:14:00] Willie Nelson - "Stuff That Works" - Oh What a Beautiful World [0:18:07] The Delines - "Left Hook Like Frazier" - Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom [0:21:40] Nicole Lawrence - "Alone Alone" - Time in Love [0:25:19] Kassi Valazza - "Birds Fly" - From Newman Street [0:29:22] Tim Hardin - "Misty Roses" - The Homecoming Concert [live in Eugene, OR 1980] [0:32:48] The Mountain Goats - "Shadow Song" - The Coroner's Gambit [0:35:53] Drugdealer feat. Weyes Blood - "Real Thing" - single [0:38:49] Dirty Projectors - "Through the Long and Lonely Night" - The Legend of Ochi Original Soundtrack [0:42:04] The Divine Comedy - "Songs of Love" - A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy [From 1996] [0:46:28] Johnny Cash - "I'm on Fire" - Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska [0:49:50] Comet Gain - "The Ballad of the Lives We Led" - Letters to Ordinary Outsiders [1:05:46] Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires - "Every Song on the Radio Reminds Me of You" - Sounds Made by Humans [1:10:20] The Wedding Present - "Blonde" - Locked Down and Stripped Back [1:13:42] Mekons - "Fallen Leaves" - Horror [1:18:01] Karl Frog - "Colonial Hearts" - Yes, Music [1:21:28] Henry Badowski - "My Face" - Life Is a Grand... [From 1981] [1:24:28] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s on the radio for about a half-hour The Beef People - "Fragile" - single [1:33:49] The Mamas & the Papas - "Look Through My Window" - single [1:36:27] Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra - "Theme from the Brothers Grimm" - single [1:39:09] Joe Lauer Presents The Crazy Gang - "The Favor" - single [1:41:12] Bo Diddley - "Say Man" - single [1:44:57] Derrick Harriott - "Lollipop Girl" - single [1:48:08] Sade - "Paradise" - single ["Remix"] [1:51:14] ABBA - "Crazy World" - single [1:54:44] Set: Bruce on the Radio Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "Satin Doll / Bishop Danced / The Circus Song" - No Album [live on WBCN Boston, MA 1/9/73] [2:09:32] Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" - No Album [live on WLIR Long Island, from My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY 7/31/73] [2:22:00] Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "You Mean So Much to Me" - No Album [live on WGOE, Richmond, VA, 5/31/73] [2:31:14] Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "The Fever" - No Album [live on KLOL, Houston, TX, 3/9/74] [2:40:36] Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "Then She Kissed Me" - No Album [live on WNEW, New York City, from The Bottom Line, 8/15/75] [2:48:44] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152685

Duration:03:08:22

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Listen to Your Mother from May 26, 2025

5/26/2025
Set: Remembering Guy Klucevsek Guy Klucevsek - "Clarissa (Mrs. Dalloway)" - The Well-Tampered Accordion [0:02:07] Guy Klucevsek and Alan Bern - "Life, Liberty and the Prosciutto Happiness" - Accordance [0:05:41] Guy Klucevsek - "Transylvanian Softwear" - Transylvanian Softwear [0:08:57] Guy Klucevsek - "The Blob" - Free Range Accordion [vocal by David Garland] [0:14:10] Guy Klucevsek and Volker Goetze - "The Sun, the Moon and the Truth" - Little Big Top [0:17:16] Guy Klucevsek - "Mounted on the Fairground's Magic Horses" - Scenes from a Mirage [0:22:12] Guy Klucevsek - "Regunkitation" - Stolen Memories [0:24:09] Guy Klucevsek - "Breathless and Bewildered" - The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour [0:26:02] Guy Klucevsek - "Samba D Hiccup" - Manhattan Cascade [0:28:28] Guy Klucevsek - "Riding The Wild Tangaroo" - Teetering on the Verge of Normalcy [0:33:10] Guy Klucevsek with Ain't Nothin' But a Polka Band - "Guy, Won't You Play Your Accordion? (Guy's Dream)" - Who Stole the Polka? [another vocal by David Garland] [0:35:23] Guy Klucevsek - "The Grass, It Is Blue (Ain't Nothin' But a Polka)" - Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse [check out Stashu's interview with Guy from 2019 here] [0:38:48] Mamehy - "Je Mitsiko Ro Mokotse" - Tsapiky! Modern Music from Southwest Madagascar ["Those Who Talk Dirty Behind Your Back Tire Themselves Out for Nothing"] [0:52:54] Los Gavilanes de la Costa - "Dame Café" - Dame Café [From 1965] [0:57:03] Say Sue Me - "Mexico" - Time Is Not Yours EP [1:00:35] Santa Maria Death Trip - "So Special" - Lili's Garden [1:04:35] Stereolab - "Electrified Teenybop!" - Instant Holograms on Metal Film [1:08:15] taro - "BOO!" - taro [1:12:28] Deradoorian - "No No Yes Yes" - Ready for Heaven [1:15:44] The Earwurms - "Woon" - plonk [1:20:18] Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires - "The Interview" - Sounds Made by Humans [1:22:20] Artificial Go - "Lasso" - Musical Chairs [1:24:56] Set: Single File: a bunch of singles in a row for about a half-hour The Kentucky Headhunters - "Skip a Rope" - single [1:32:41] Joe Jackson - "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)" - single [1:34:50] Cornell Campbell - "I Gotta Keep on Running" - single [1:38:32] Barbara Keith - "Fisherman King" - single [1:41:36] Ace - "No Future in Your Eyes" - single [1:44:06] James Gadson - "Let the Feeling Belong (To the One That Turns You On)" - single [1:47:27] K.C. and the Sunshine Band - "I've Got the Feeling" - single [1:50:25] Shanna Learn - "Shanna, Listen to Your Mother" - single [1:53:23] The Elegants - "Little Star" - single [1:55:56] Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and His Orchestra - "G.I. Jive" - Songs That Got Us Through WWII [From 1943] [2:14:43] Ella Mae Morse - "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" - Cow Cow Boogie [From 1943] [2:17:51] Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - "Ration Blues" - Songs That Got Us Through WWII Vol. 2 [From 1943] [2:20:15] Big Bill Broonzy - "In the Army Now" - News & The Blues: Telling It Like It Is [From 1941] [2:23:06] Fats Waller - "That's What the Well Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear" - The Victory Collection: The Smithsonian Remembers When America Went to War [From 1942] [2:26:05] Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra - "I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen" - There's No Business Like Show Business: The Magical Songs of Irving Berlin [From 1942; Vocal by Garry Stevens] [2:29:29] Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - "Bei Mir Bist du Schoen (Parts 1 & 2)" - The Very Best of Benny Goodman [From 1937 (pre-war, but very popular during the war in a different version)] [2:32:19] Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights - "Little Bo-Peep Has Lost Her Jeep" - Let's Put the Axe to the Axis: Songs of World War II [From 1942; Vocals by Donna and Her Don Juans (Gordon, Charlie, and George)] [2:38:19] The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'" - American War Songs 1933-1947: Hitler & Hell [From 1943] [2:41:20] The Four Vagabonds - "A G.I. Wish" - The Victory...
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Ring, Bell (with Special Guest David Keenan) from May 19, 2025

5/19/2025
Will Holshouser - "Aviary" - The Lone Wild Bird [0:00:00] Jean Claude Vannier - "La 2CV rouillée (The Rusty 2CV)" - Jean Claude Vannier et son Orchestre de Mandolines [0:06:22] Clannad - "Rince Briotánach" - Clannad 2 [From 1974] [0:09:41] Will Graefe - "Gatorade Zero" - Compositions for Guitar Vol. 2 [0:12:46] James Blackshaw - "Why Keep Still?" - Unraveling in Your Hands [0:16:11] Richard Dawson - "Removals Van" - End of the Middle [0:22:17] Nancy Richmond and the Mood Elevators - "Let's Play Pretend" - Cheaha Mountain Rainbows [From 1986] [0:29:03] Vashti Bunyan - "If I Were" - Lookaftering – Expanded Edition [2001 demo version] [0:31:37] Bity Booker - "The Weep Willow Tree" - single [0:34:08] Donovan - "Celia of the Seals" - To Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan [Recorded 1969, released 1971] [0:37:27] Norma Tenega - "Magic Day" - I Don't Think It Will Hurt If You Smile [From 1971; previously unreleased demo version] [0:40:34] Goldie Hawn - "Ring Bell" - Goldie [0:43:39] Céline Dessberg - "Chintamanti" - single [0:59:50] Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra - "Le rencontre" - Après La Marée Noire - Vers Une Musique Bretonne Nouvelle [From 1979; "The Encounter"] [1:03:27] Jalwal, Annie & Geerasak - "Klug Tum La" - Thai? Dai!: The Heavier Side of the Luk Thung Underground [1:07:27] Polyrhythmics feat. Adryon de León - "Smoke and Mirrors" - single [1:11:27] Isaac Hayes - "Chocolate Chip (Instrumental)" - Hot Buttered Singles Volume 2 (1972-1976) [From 1975] [1:15:24] Billy Butler and Infinity - "Dip, Dip, I Got My Hands Full" - Music Inspired By "The Thing with Two Heads" [1:19:30] Swamp Dogg with Esther Phillips - "The Love We Got Ain't Worth Two Dead Flies" - F**ck the Bomb, Stop the Drugs: Best of 25 Years of Swamp Dogg [From 1981] [1:23:23] Set: Single File: a selection of 45s played for about a half-hour Candi Station - "I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool)" - single [1:32:36] Sherbet - "Motor of Love" - single [1:34:19] Lindsay Buckingham - "Mary Lee Jones" - single [1:37:35] Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Will Make You Fail in School" - single [1:40:44] David Ackles - "Oh, California" - single [1:43:26] Manfred Mann - "Up the Junction" - single [1:46:05] Bobby Goldsboro - "Watching Scotty Grow" - single [going out to Scott Williams] [1:49:40] War - "Slippin' into Darkness" - single [1:52:21] Set: Interview with author David Keenan Interview with David Keenan, Pt. 1 [2:02:13] The Scrotum Poles - "Pick the Cat's Eyes Out" - Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Traveling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th Century Underground Music [From 1978] [2:15:13] Interview with David Keenan, Pt. 2 [2:17:23] Jandek - "All in an Apple Orchard" - Living in a Moon So Blue [2:28:10] Interview with David Keenan, Pt. 3 [2:30:43] The Pastels - "I Wonder Why" - Suck On: Retrogressive 1983-1985 [From 1983] [2:37:39] Interview with David Keenan, Pt. 4 [2:39:48] Idea Fire Company - "Romance" - Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Traveling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th Century Underground Music [From 2011] [2:45:35] A to Austr - "Bird" - Musics from Holy Ground [From 1970] [2:49:38] Rocket from the Tombs - "What Love Is" - The Day the Earth Met the...Rocket from the Tombs [From 1975] [2:53:05] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152226
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Backseat Driver in the Car of Love from May 12, 2025

5/12/2025
Julie Russell - "One Morning in May" - One Morning in May [0:00:00] Lou & Sally Killen - "Bright Shining Morning" - Bright Shining Morning [0:05:34] Brìghde Chaimbeul - "Uguvlu (ii)" - Carry Them with Us [0:09:48] Filkin's Drift - "Craig y Ddinas / The Miller's Pond" - Glan [0:12:41] Aly Bain - "Niel Gow's Lament for His Second Wife" - Never the Same: Leave-Taking from the British Folk Revival 1970-1977 [From 1971] [0:16:58] Stick in the Wheel - "Watercress-O" - A Thousand Pokes [0:20:30] The Worm - "Pantilde" - Pantilde [0:24:30] Milkweed - "The Milk-Fed Calf" - Remscéla [0:28:49] Vashti Bunyan - "Window Over the Bay" - Gather in the Mushrooms: The British Folk Underground 1969-75 [From 1970] [0:32:01] The Scruffy Pooks - "Tree Stands Alone" - Beltane [0:33:57] Jim Ghedi - "The Seasons" - Wasteland [0:36:06] Peggy Seeger - "Hope" - Teleology [0:38:53] Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts - "The Bonny House of Airlie" - Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia [0:54:52] Bhajan Bhoy - "Sir Richard Conyers" - Summer in St. Mary's [0:59:23] Inturist - "Birdwatching" - Tourism [1:09:26] J.G.G. - "BOMBOLLA 6" - BOMBOLLA [1:14:34] Y. Tabata - "Summer Initiation" - Disk Musik: A DD. Records Compilation [early '80s] [1:16:32] Maple Fyshh - "Love Gone to the Blue Sea (Once Again on the Seaside Path)" - You Are Leaving My Mind: The "Mariko" and "Dokitto Station!!" Era [From 1995] [1:22:29] Adult Net - "Where Were You (When I Needed You)" - The Honey Tangle [1:25:26] Set: Single File: a bunch of singles in a row for about a half-hour The Chi-Lites - "Stoned Out of My Mind" - single [1:35:03] Esther Phillips - "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" - single [1:38:02] Henry Mancini and His Orchestra - "Seventy Six Trombones" - single [1:40:49] Bobby Bare - "(Margie's at) The Lincoln Park Inn" - single [1:43:45] Freddie McGregor - "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" - single [1:46:42] Linda Ronstadt - "How Do I Make You" - single [1:50:28] Various Artists - "Zingers from "The Hollywood Squares"" - single [1:53:02] D. Steven Thomas - "Agent Orange Blues" - single [1:58:22] Set: Live from San Francisco 1966–1969 The Great! Society - "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" - Collector's Item from the San Francisco Scene [live at the Matrix 1966] [2:12:27] Jefferson Airplane - "Chauffeur Blues" - Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/15/66 Late Show-Signe's Farewell [2:17:48] The Grateful Dead - "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" - The History of The Grateful Dead [live at the Avalon Ballroom, 9/66] [2:24:37] Big Brother and the Holding Company - "It's a Deal" - Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 [June 23, 1968, to be exact] [2:28:40] Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Mona" - Happy Trails [mostly live at the Fillmore] [2:31:54] Moby Grape - "Changes" - Moby Grape Live [Avalon Ballroom 1967] [2:38:24] Santana - "Conquistadore Rides Again" - Live at the Fillmore '68 [December 1968] [2:43:04] Country Joe and The Fish - "Rock and Soul Music / Love" - The Life and Times of Country Joe and The Fish from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock [Fillmore, January 1969] [2:51:29] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151999