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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 Apr 28, 2025

4/28/2025
Barbecue Joe and His Hot Dogs - "Tar Paper Stomp" - Swingin' at the Hickory House [From 1930] [0:00:00] Baltimore Bell Hops - "Hot and Anxious" - The Definitive Fletcher Henderson [From 1931] [0:05:15] Mills Blue Rhythm Band - "There's Rhythm in Harlem" - Harlem Jazz Classics [From 1931] [0:08:35] Edgar Hayes and His Orchestra - "In the Mood" - 78 single [0:11:39] Artie Shaw and His Orchestra - "In the Mood" - Melody and Madness Vol. 1 [radio broadcast, early 1939] [0:15:00] Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - "In the Mood" - Swing Time! The Fabulous Big Band Era 1925–1955 [From August 1939; the hit version] [0:17:40] The Merry Macs - "In the Mood" - 78 single [0:21:10] The Andrew Sisters - "In the Mood" - Deluxe - Anthology, Vol. 2 [From 1952] [0:23:54] Ernie Fields and His Orchestra - "In the Mood" - In the Mood - A Golden Classics Edition [From 1959] [0:26:40] The Hawk - "In the Mood" - single [a.k.a. Jerry Lee Lewis] [0:29:17] Sandy Nelson - "In the Mood" - Sandy Nelson Plays Teen Beat [0:31:35] Roy Clark - "In the Mood" - The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark [From 1962] [0:34:14] The Swinging Blue Jeans - "In the Mood" - Live Aus Dem "Cascade Beat Club" in Köln [From 1965] [0:37:22] The Soft Boys - "In the Mood" - Live at the Portland Arms [live in 1978] [0:43:00] Ray Stevens and the Henhouse Five Plus Too - "In the Mood" - single [0:45:27] Stereolab - "Aerial Troubles" - single [instrumental version] [1:00:40] Daughter of Swords - "Morning in Madison" - Alex [1:03:11] Tirez Tirez - "Dreams" - single [From 1982] [1:06:56] Essenden Airport - "How Low Can You Go...?" - Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 [From 1979] [1:11:47] The Worm - "Grass Grows Pt. 1" - Pantilde [1:15:12] Zbigniew Preisner - "Effroyables Jardins (Generique)" - Effroyables Jardins [1:18:10] Dionne Warwick - "Put Yourself In My Place" - From the Vaults [1:19:37] Friday Browne - "Getting Nowhere" - You Got Me Hooked! More Marylebone Beat Girls [From 1966] [1:21:45] Irma Thomas - "The Hurt's All Gone" - Straight from the Soul [From 1965] [1:24:41] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - "Don't Knock My Love" - single [1:33:11] Michel Polnareff - "Lipstick" - single [1:34:58] Donna Lynn - "My Boyfriend Got a Beatle Haircut" - single [1:38:19] Ricky Nelson - "Stood Up" - single [1:40:25] The Blasters - "Bus Station" - single [1:42:16] Swamp Dogg - "I Was Born Blue" - single [1:44:49] Brian Hyland - "You and Me (#2)" - single [1:47:48] Candlewick Green - "Doggie" - single [1:50:14] Barrington Levy - "Reggae Music (Version)" - single [1:53:31] Aretha Franklin & Mavis Staples - "Oh Happy Day" - single [1:56:45] Los Lobos - "Bertha" - Deadicated [2:10:46] Richard Betts - "Long Time Gone" - Highway Call [From 1974; not gone that long] [2:15:38] Shadow - "Oh La La" - Earl's Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath, 1970-1980 [2:20:00] Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance - "Harvest Home" - One for the Road [From 1976] [2:23:04] Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint - "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" - Lo and Behold [2:28:14] Nana Mouskouri - "Le ciel est noir" - Que je sois un ange... [with the Athéniens] [2:32:25] Warren Zevon - "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - The Wind [2:41:26] Ritchie Tierney - "Please Stop Breaking Me Down" - Someone Like Me [From 1981] [2:45:58] Michael Hall - "I Want to Watch You Age" - Quarter to Three [2:50:21] Willie Nelson - "Leave You with a Smile" - A Beautiful Time [Happy early birthday to Willie!] [2:53:36] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151536
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Episode from Apr 21, 2025

4/21/2025
William Tyler - "Concern" - Time Indefinite [0:00:00] Eli Winter - "For a Fallen Rocket" - A Trick of the Light [0:07:23] Drew Gardner - "Polaris" - Cygnus A [0:11:43] Ernest Hood - "Pleasant, This Garden" - Back to the Woodlands [from sometime between 1972 and 1982] [0:18:59] Yaryu - "Sacrifice" - For Damage [0:22:50] Bark Culture - "Slippy's Tune" - Warm Wisdom [0:26:29] The Lewis Express + Chip Wickham - "The Saint and The Stranger" - Doo-Ha! [0:30:41] BUZZ - "Garasumado" - Tokyo Bliss: Japanese Funk, Boogie & City Pop from King Records 1974-88 [From 1974] [0:37:34] Yoshiko Sai - "Koi Shita Hito E" - Mangekyō [From 1975] [0:40:13] Laurie Styvers - "The Way It Should Stay" - Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities [From 1972] [0:43:54] The Clinger Sisters - "In Need of a Friend" - Havin' a Good Time [From the late 60s, unissued previously] [0:49:13] Nora Guthrie - "Home Before Dark" - American Baroque: Chamber Pop and Beyond 1967-1971 [From 1967] [0:53:05] Cyrus Faryar - "Evergreen (Earth Anthem)" - Cyrus [From 1971] [0:55:46] Mekons - "You're Not Singing Any More" - Horror [1:09:45] Σtella - "Ta Vimata" - Adagio [1:12:35] Rita Donte - "La Vida Es Hermosa" - Ritual [1:14:33] Tom Jones - "Opportunity to Cry" - The Willie Nelson Songbook [From 2015] [1:18:20] Molly Fay - "The Bottle or Me" - Barnyard Beehive [From 1967] [1:20:59] Ben Vaughn - "Too Sensitive for This World" - Mood Swings ('90-'85 & More) [interviewed on Three Chord Monte today!] [1:24:10] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Bobby Whitlock - "Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" - single [1:33:52] The Ventures - "Soul Breeze" - single [1:36:24] Charlie Rich - "Everything I Do Is Wrong" - single [1:39:07] Li'l Wally - "Li'l Wally Twirl" - single [1:40:53] Interlude - "Don't Like No Boring People" - single [thanks to Scott Williams] [1:43:43] The Captain & Tennille - "Do That to Me One More Time" - single [1:48:03] 999 - "Found Out Too Late" - single [1:51:47] Bobby Bare and Lacy J. Dalton - "It's a Dirty Job" - single [1:55:22] Alison Krauss & Union Station - "Richmond on the James" - Arcadia [2:09:47] Hedy West - "Little Margaret" - Hedy West, Vol. 2 [2:12:33] Murphy Campbell - "I Can't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" - No Album [2:15:48] The Down Hill Strugglers - "Abandoned Orchards That Grow" - Old Juniper [2:18:40] Sierra Ferrell - "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" - Trail of Flowers [2:21:14] Mary Faith Rhoads and the Dobbs Brothers - "The Cuckoo" - Take Care of Yourself [2:24:52] The Wildmans - "Take Me" - Longtime Friend [2:27:46] Freakwater - "Rank Strangers" - Dancing Underwater [2:31:25] The Charles River Valley Boys - "Victim to the Tomb" - Bluegrass and Old Timey Music [From 1962] [2:36:01] The Blue Grass Gentlemen - "Poor Little Ellen" - The Blue Grass Gentlemen [2:39:23] Red Cravens and the Bray Brothers - "I Never Shall Marry" - 419 W. Main [From 1964] [2:41:54] The Seldom Scene - "Show Me the Way to Go Home" - Remains to Be Scene [2:44:44] Emerson's Old Timey Custard-Suckin' Band - "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" - Emerson's Old Timey Custard-Suckin' Band [2:47:23] Country Gazette - "Teach Your Children" - Don't Give Up Your Day Job [2:50:51] Clarence White - "Sugarfoot Rag" - 33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals [From 1964] [2:54:03] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151308
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Episode from Apr 14, 2025

4/14/2025
The Pair - "Glad to Be Me" - Live at the Ice House [0:00:00] Gordon Lightfoot - "Oh, Linda" - Lightfoot! [0:04:19] Terry Callier - "It's About Time" - The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier [From 1964] [0:07:18] The Big Three - "Rider" - The Big Three Featuring Mama Cass [From 1963] [0:10:49] The Pentangle - "Haitian Fight Song" - Sweet Child [studio version, 1968] [0:13:49] Neo Maya - "I Won't Hurt You" - The Autumn Almanac: Ripples, Volume 3 [From 1967] [0:17:33] Neal Heppleston - "Spencer the Rover" - Folk Songs for Double Bass [0:20:01] Elvis Presley - "Fever" - Elvis Is Back! - Legacy Edition [From 1960] [0:23:09] Julie London with Don Bagley - "Bye Bye Blackbird" - No Album [from "The Julie London Show"] [0:26:44] Bobby Darin - "I'm on My Way, Great God" - As Long As I'm Singing: The Bobby Darin Collection [live in Las Vegas] [0:28:56] Rob Wasserman - "Satisfaction (Bass Trilogy Part 2)" - Trios [0:33:58] The Midnight Rounders - "Bull Fiddle Rag" - How Low Can You Go?: Anthology of the String Bass (1925-1941) [From 1928] [0:36:19] Sacred Paws - "Say Something" - Jump into Life [0:52:52] The Ex - "Wheel" - If Your Mirror Breaks [0:55:30] Max Romeo - "Stick by Me" - Every Man Ought to Know [From 1974; R.I.P.] [1:00:51] Topette!! - "Winstanley's / Les Trois Canards" - ON: Live at the Jam Jar [1:04:01] Brìghde Chaimbeul - "Bog an Lochan" - single [1:07:47] Quinie - "Macaphee Turn the Cattle" - Forefawk, Mind Me [1:10:04] Erlend Apneseth - "Spring" - Song over støv [1:11:25] Robert Mandel's EEF - "Csango Moldavia" - The Robert Mandel Collection [1:18:26] Red Baraat - "Thums Up" - Bhangra Rangeela [1:23:16] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour The Shady Days - "Little Girl" - single [1:35:05] The Box Tops - "Since I Been Gone" - single [1:37:15] Steve Earle - "What'll You Do About Me?" - single [1:39:59] Clint Eastwood - "Number One Entertainer" - single [1:42:36] The Kinks - "Starmaker" - single [1:46:09] Roy Ayers Presents Ubiquity - "Starbooty" - single [1:49:04] The Gee's - "It's All Over" - single [1:52:09] Graeme Downes - "The Way I Love You" - single [1:54:51] Kathy Linden - "Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye" - single [with Joe Leahy's Orchestra] [1:57:58] Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - "Spring Ode - Meskerem" - Church of Kidane Mehret [live in Jerusalem, 1972] [2:13:37] Mustapha Skandrani - "Mode Araq" - Istikhbars & Improvisations [From 1965] [2:21:29] numün - "Reverence" - Opening [2:26:43] The Habibiyya - "Bird in God's Garden" - If Man But Knew [From 1971] [2:31:44] Richard and Linda Thompson - "Bird in God's Garden" - No Album [live at the Theatre Royal, London, May 1977] [2:38:08] French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson - "Bird in God's Garden / Lost and Found" - French Frith Kaiser Thompson [2:47:35] William Tyler - "Been Listening All the Day" - Treasures Untold [2:53:08] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151079
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Episode from Apr 7, 2025

4/7/2025
Charles Magnante - "Luna Rossa" - Roman Spectacular [0:00:00] Roger Vaysse et son orchestre - "Sa Preferee" - Danse a Tout Va! [0:05:53] Angelo DiPippo - "Arthur Street" - Legends of the Accordion [From 1992] [0:08:11] Maria Kalaniemi & Aldargaz - "Ahma" - Nordic Roots 3 [From 1999] [0:11:08] Cormac Begley - "Rolling in the Barrel / O'Neill's March / Tralee Jail" - "B" [0:15:06] John Kirkpatrick and Ashley Hutchings - "Bonny Breastknot / Double Lead Through" - The Compleat Dancing Master [From 1976] [0:18:22] Francois-Regis Gizavo - "Mikea" - Planet Squeezebox [From 1995] [0:21:07] Steve Jordan - "La Polka Loca" - Turn Me Loose [0:25:54] Stan Wolowic and the Polka Chips - "Happy Man (Krakowiak)" - Stan Wolowic and the Polka Chips [0:29:17] Mr. V. Mzwandile & His Accordion - "1968 Special" - Accordions Rock the World!: Transpacific Sound Paradise 2021 Marathon Premium [0:31:34] Angel Corpus Christi - "I'm a Believer / Downtown / Silhouettes" - Accordion Pop, Vol. 1 [0:33:25] BASIC - "Changes, Changing" - Dream City [0:50:48] Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires - "31 Rules for Midlife Rebellion" - Sounds Made By Humans [1:00:28] Famous Logs in History - "Relax" - Mind the Bollards [1:03:00] Robert - "Handbreak" - Robert the Record [From 1986] [1:04:52] Cathy La Creme - "I Married a Cult Figure from Salford" - No One's Listening Anyway: UK DIY Post-Punk & Dubs 1980-1984 Volume 1 [From 1980] [1:08:12] X-Cetra - "Conversation" - Summer 2000 [From 2000] [1:12:53] Anika - "Walk Away" - Abyss [1:17:47] The Raincoats - "Running Away" - Everybody Is a Star: The Sly Stone Songbook [From 1982] [1:20:57] Henry Badowski - "Henry's in Love" - Life Is a Grand... [From 1981] [1:24:27] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour The Cowsills - "All I Really Wanta Be Is Me" - single [1:35:09] Marion Jarvis - "Hell of a Fix" - single [1:37:15] Don Gibson & Sue Thompson - "Did You Ever Think" - single [1:40:39] John Gregory Orchestra - "The Six Million Dollar Man" - single [1:43:02] Debbie Harry - "Backfired" - single [1:45:31] Dobby Jones - "The Wrong They Do" - single [1:49:11] Yo La Tengo - "A House Is Not a Motel" - single [1:52:30] The Smubbs - "Rosary Anne" - single [1:56:28] Petula Clark - "Ciao Ciao" - single [2:12:47] Dusty Springfield - "Stupido Stupido" - single ["Wishin' and Hopin'"] [2:15:10] The Everly Brothers - "Buona Fortuna Amore Mio" - In Germany and Italy [From 1965] [2:18:02] Dionne Warwick - "Walk On By" - Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities [From 1963] [2:20:38] Gene Pitney - "Citta Spietata" - Gene Italiano ["Town Without Pity"] [2:23:17] P.J. Proby - "Quando Tornera" - The Best of P.J. Proby: The EMI Years 1961-1972 [From 1966] [2:26:08] The Four Tops - "L'Arcobaleno" - Motown Around the World: The Classic Singles [From 1967] [2:29:09] Lulu - "Boom Bang a Bang" - To Sir With Love!: The Complete Mickie Most Recordings [From 1969] [2:31:49] The Hollies - "Non Prego Per Me" - Rarities [From 1967] [2:34:11] Nilsson - "Without Her" - The RCA Albums Collection [From 1967] [2:36:53] The Rascals - "It's a Beautiful Morning" - In Any Other Language, Vol. 2: Three Chord Monte 2018 Marathon Premium [2:39:19] Stevie Wonder - "Il Sole E Di Tutti" - Motown Around the World: The Classic Singles [From 1967; "A Place in the Sun"] [2:41:39] Tommy James and the Shondells - "Crimson and Clover" - In Any Other Language: Three Chord Monte's 2015 Marathon Premium [From 1968] [2:45:05] Neil McArthur - "Ma Non E Giusto" - Into the Afterlife [a.k.a. Colin Blunstone, 1969] [2:47:34] David Bowie - "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)" - Loving the Alien (1983-1988) [From 1986] [2:50:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150844