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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 Aug 18, 2025

8/18/2025
Leon Russell - "Beware of Darkness" - Leon Russell and the Shelter People [From 1971] [0:00:00] Bobby Lee - "The Persian Caravan" - Hello Sunshine: A Tribute to Relatively Clean Rivers [0:06:50] Clete Stallbaumer - "John's Song" - Maybe I'm Dreaming [From 1978] [0:11:05] Warren Zevon - "Tule's Blues" - Preludes - Rare and Unreleased Recordings [early '70s] [0:15:26] Dillon Warnek (Feat. Margo Price) - "Speeding Bullet Out of Georgia" - As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep [0:18:23] Lukas Nelson - "Make You Happy" - American Romance [0:22:23] Little Mazarn - "Mustang Island" - Mustang Island [0:25:22] Kinloch Nelson - "Opus 2 by Two" - Waiting: More Recordings, 1968-1976 [From 1968] [0:28:26] Joseph Decosimo - "Flowery Girls" - Fiery Gizzard [0:30:34] Bruce Springsteen - "High Sierra" - Tracks II: The Lost Albums [From "Twilight Hours," circa 2018] [0:33:29] Lee Hazlewood - "Souls Island" - A House Safe for Tigers Original Soundtrack Recording [From 1975] [0:39:16] Daryl Hannah - "Freedom for the Stallion" - The Surfrider Mixtape Vol. 1 [0:45:43] Countermoon - "Joe Belock" - single [0:48:35] Bruce Springsteen - "Don't Back Down on Our Love" - Tracks II: The Lost Albums [From 1983] [1:07:27] Bruce Springsteen - "Seven Tears" - Tracks II: The Lost Albums [Also 1983, "L.A. Garage Sessions"] [1:09:46] Bruce Springsteen - "The Lost Charro" - Tracks II: The Lost Albums [From "Inyo," mid-'90s] [1:11:42] Bruce Springsteen - "Our Lady of Monroe" - Tracks II: The Lost Albums [also from "Inyo"] [1:16:23] Bruce Springsteen - "Late in the Evening" - Tracks II: The Lost Albums [another one from "Twilight Hours"] [1:20:57] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Jesse Winchester - "Quiet About It" - single [1:29:45] Derrick Morgan - "A No Duppy" - single [1:32:09] Vincent Edwards - "See That Girl" - single [1:34:24] The Chet Baker Quartet - "Easy to Love" - single [1:36:54] The Mamas & The Papas - "Strange Young Girls" - single [1:39:54] Larry Jon Wilson - "Think I Feel a Hitchhike Coming On" - single [1:42:48] Thermos Greenwood - "Who Gave the Monkey a Gun" - single [1:45:29] Leone Thomas - "Thank You Baby - Part 1" - single [1:49:07] Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Computer Game "Theme from the Circus"" - single [1:52:42] Mahalia Jackson - "Take My Hand Precious Lord" - single [1:56:36] Set: Saluting Bobby Whitlock Delaney & Bonnie - "Things Get Better" - Home [2:12:27] Derek and the Dominoes - "Keep On Growing" - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs [2:14:29] Derek and the Dominoes - "Thorn Tree in the Garden" - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs [2:20:38] Bobby Whitlock - "A Game Called Life" - Bobby Whitlock [2:23:32] Bobby Whitlock - "Hello L.A., Bye-Bye Birmingham" - Raw Velvet [2:27:41] Bobby Whitlock - "I'd Rather Live 'The Straight Life'" - Bobby Whitlock [2:31:32] Bobby Whitlock - "Dearest I Wonder" - Raw Velvet [2:34:01] Bobby Whitlock - "You Still on My Mind" - One of a Kind [2:37:46] Bobby Whitlock - "(It's Been a) Long Long Time" - Rock Your Sox Off [2:40:51] Derek and the Dominoes - "Little Wing" - No Album [Live at the Fillmore, 10/24/70 (late show)] [2:46:31] Derek and the Dominoes - "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad" - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs [2:52:59] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155262

Duration:03:08:41

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I.L.T.D.J. (with Special Guest Cyrus Moussavi of Mississippi Records) from Aug 11, 2025

8/11/2025
Eddy Manson - "Wish You Were Here" - Percussion Sounds and the Harmonica [0:00:00] Minoru Muraoka - "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" - Bamboo [From 1970] [0:05:18] Barbra Streisand with Bob Dylan - "The Very Thought of You" - The Secret of Life: Partners Volume Two [0:08:13] Unknown Artist - "Synanon Summer" - I Dream of Anal Kundalini: Music of Mind Control 2025 Marathon Premium [0:12:03] Carla Piper - "Modesto, My Destination" - Place: Inflatable Squirrel Carcass 2025 Marathon Premium [0:14:27] Relatively Clean Rivers - "Hello Sunshine" - Relatively Clean Rivers [From 1976] [0:17:45] Wednesday Knudsen and Willie Lane - "Last Flight to Eden" - Hello Sunshine: A Tribute to Relatively Clean Rivers [0:21:08] The Northern Lights - "Ann-Margret" - Gabrielle [0:24:09] Sault - "I.L.T.S." - 10 [0:26:43] Slapp Happy - "The Drum" - Acnalbasac Noom [From 1973] [0:30:10] Terry Reid - "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" - Silver White Light: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 [0:33:44] Piggietails - "Cycling Song" - Piggietails [0:50:27] Allo Darlin' - "Cologne" - Bright Nights [0:53:10] Coral Grief - "Late Bloomer" - Air Between Us [0:56:18] Lightheaded - "Love Is Overrated" - Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming! [0:59:06] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour The Monkees - "Teardrop City" - single [1:06:00] Keith Poppin - "Before the Next Teardop Falls" - single [1:07:50] James Brown - "Static" - single [1:10:16] Big Rock and Tadpole - "Beep-Beep Song" - single [1:14:13] Styx - "Heavy Metal Poisoning" - single [1:17:05] James Last Band - "Night Drive" - single [1:21:58] Delaney & Bonnie - "Move 'Em Out" - single [1:25:50] Melba Moore - "Stay Awhile" - single [1:28:39] Hylo Brown - "The Room Above Mine" - single [1:32:25] Kris Kristofferson - "Epitaph (Black and Blue)" - single [1:34:27] Set: Cyrus Moussavi of Mississippi Records stops by to talk about Alick Nkhata Interview with Cyrus Moussavi [1:44:27] Alick Nkhata - "Kalindawalo Ni Mfumu" - Radio Lusaka [From 1953] [1:52:13] Alick Nkhata - "Fosta Kayi" - Radio Lusaka [From 1949] [1:54:27] Interview with Cyrus Moussavi [2:04:29] Alick Nhkata - "Imbote" - Radio Lusaka [From 1952] [2:05:13] Alick Nkhata - "Elena" - Radio Lusaka [From 1950] [2:07:27] Interview with Cyrus Moussavi [2:10:29] Alick Nhkata - "Bambi Balefisa Kumwabo" - Radio Lusaka [From 1955] [2:18:47] Interview with Cyrus Moussavi [2:21:03] Sabelo Mathe - "Hambanini" - Bulawayo Blue Yodel: Sounds of Zimbabwe, Kenya & South Africa 1948 to 1959 [From 1955] [2:23:31] The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - "Black Rest" - All Is Sound [2:26:29] Interview with Cyrus Moussavi [2:28:52] Bizimungu Dieudonne - "Tabara Ryangombe" - Inzovu Y'Imirindi [This is a test pressing. It's coming out later this year!] [2:35:02] Willem Nyland - "Part I (excerpt)" - Piano Studies [From 1962] [2:40:04] Interview with Cyrus Moussavi [2:46:49] Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - "The Storm" - Church of Kidane Mehret [From 1962] [2:52:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155029

Duration:03:08:58

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Leap for Joy from Aug 4, 2025

8/4/2025
Kostas Virvos and Mimis Plessas - "Stin Acherousia (In the Absence of Husbandry) / O Menipos / Oi Dynatoi Tis Gis (The Mighty Ones of the Earth) / O Efkratis / O Teiresias / Ta Chrei (The Debts) / O Stratiotis (Soldier with the Spear)" - Loukianou Nekrikoi Dialogoi (Dialogues of the Dead) [0:00:00] K. Yoshimatsu - "Strawberry Secret Part I (excerpt)" - Zentai: The Collected Works of K. Yoshimatsu [Volume I] [From 1983] [0:21:11] Yo La Tengo - "Leaving Home" - Old Joy: Soundtrack by Yo La Tengo [From 2006; with Smokey Hormel] [0:27:05] Wonderful Aspiration of the Source - "Pure Land" - Wonderful Aspiration of the Source [0:32:27] Iiris Viljanen - "Honeymoon in the Alps" - So Much of You Was Sleeping [0:36:01] Cory Hanson - "Old Policeman" - I Love People [0:39:22] O'o - "La Mésange" - More Wishes, Less Bones [0:42:40] Françoise Hardy - "Voilà" - En Vogue: Best of 1962-1967 [From 1967] [0:45:46] Alick Nkhata - "Bambi Balefisa Kumwabo" - Radio Lukasa ["Some People Hide Where They Come From"] [1:02:15] Mfongozi Guitar Players - "Marabi Jazz" - Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950-1965 [From 1950] [1:04:55] Francis Bebey - "Savannah Georgia" - Trésor Magnetique [1:07:30] Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad - "Não Podermos O Amar Parar" - Jazz Is Dead 24 ["We Can't Stop Loving Him"] [1:10:53] Luisa (Feat. Azymuth) - "Lenha Na Fogueira" - single [From 1981; "Add Fuel to the Fire"] [1:14:39] Caetano Veloso - "Cara a Cara" - Convocação Geral: Carnaval 75 ["Face to Face"] [1:17:31] João Selva - "Onda" - Onda ["Wave"] [1:19:51] Resavoir & Matt Gold - "Tomorrow" - Horizon [1:23:30] Charles Kynard - "Rock Steady" - Woga [From 1972] [1:26:35] Set: Single File: some 45s in a row for about a half-hour Rainbow - "Hello, Hello, Hello" - single [1:35:06] Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - "Darlin'" - single [1:37:56] The Diamonds - "Chick-Lets (Don't Let Me Down)" - single [1:40:33] k.d. lang and Take 6 - "Ridin' the Rails" - single [1:42:51] Prince Haron - "Boogar Woog" - single [1:45:11] Ava Aldridge - "Mama's Got Something Cookin'" - single [1:48:07] Stevie Wonder - "Sir Duke" - single [1:50:29] The Young Rascals - "A Girl Like You" - single [1:54:22] Daryl Hall & John Oates - "You Make My Dreams" - single [1:57:08] The Seven Brothers - "America" - Crying in the Street [From 1973] [2:10:06] The Relatives - "This World Is Moving Too Fast" - Don't Let Me Fall [From 1975] [2:12:38] The Meditation Singers - "Trouble's Brewin'" - Holy Spirit: Spiritual Soul and Gospel Funk from Shreveport's Jewel Records [From 1971] [2:15:52] The Violinaires - "I'll Always Love Them" - Presenting the Fabulous Violinaires [2:20:56] The Clark Sisters with Mattie Moss Clark - "Ha-ya (Eternal Life)" - Is My Living in Vain [2:23:57] Howard Hunt and The Supreme Angels - "Old Time Revival and A Prayer for the World" - Sunday Down South [2:28:35] Rev. Clarence Henderson - "Lord Lubricate My Bones (excerpt)" - Lord Lubricate My Bones [2:37:04] The Abyssian Baptist Gospel Choir - "He Stays in My Room" - Shakin' the Rafters [From 1960] [2:44:27] Brother Vernard Johnson - "I Must Tell Jesus" - Rocking the Gospel [2:52:37] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154802

Duration:03:08:38

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If It's Monday Morning from Jul 28, 2025

7/28/2025
Nils Frahm - "Canton" - Night [0:00:00] Agincourt - "When I Awoke" - A Game for All Who Know: The H & F Recordings Box [From "Fly Away," 1970] [0:07:14] Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions - "She Moved Through the Fayre" - Cold Blows the Rain [0:10:47] Fran Foote - "The Irish Girl" - From Here: English Folk Field Recordings [0:16:37] Nick Drake - "Strange Face" - The Making of Five Leaves Left [from first session, 3/68] [0:20:28] De Vlaamse Primitieven - "Dienaar Met de Gouden Klepel" - Lucht Van Een Adnere Planeet ["Servant with the Golden Clapper"] [0:24:16] Steve Gunn - "Sunday" - Music for Writers [0:29:42] Malicorne - "Bouree" - Quintessence [0:35:44] Alice - "Il y a du rouge" - Châteaux Faibles ["There Is Red"] [0:38:08] Veronique Chalot - "La Chanson de Mai" - A L'Entrée du Temps Clair [From 1979; "Song of May"] [0:40:07] Sairie - "Harder Than It Seemed" - single [0:46:09] Jeanines - "Satisfied" - How Long Can It Last [1:04:00] Majorette - "Inner World" - single [1:05:31] World of Pooh - "I'm on the Wrong Side" - Tight and Loose [From 1986] [1:08:15] The Cords - "Fabulist" - The Cords [1:11:11] Physarum - "Puzzle Me" - Selected Songs I [1:13:43] Julie Doiron - "Tonight, We Sleep" - Loneliest in the Morning [1:15:48] Mae Powell - "Where Will Love Go" - Making Room for the Light [1:19:47] A Girl Called Eddy - "The Soundtrack of Your Life" - Tears All Over Town [1:22:44] Everything But the Girl - "Tougher Than the Rest" - Acoustic [1:26:18] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour The Velvet Hammer - "I Was Holding Your Hand" - single [1:36:46] Billy Vera - "Good Morning Blues" - single [1:38:40] Dr. Hook - "The Millionaire" - single [1:41:40] Syreeta & G.C. Cameron - "Let's Make a Deal" - single [1:44:37] Steve Allen - "What Is a Wife" - single [1:48:01] Rick Nelson - "Lonely Corner" - single [1:51:47] Sheila E. - "The Belle of St. Mark" - single [1:54:09] David Johansen - "Wreckless Crazy" - single [1:57:48] Johnny Paycheck - "The Cave" - single [2:00:44] Tom Lehrer - "We Will All Go Together When We Go" - The Remains of Tom Lehrer [From 1959; R.I.P.] [2:16:32] Tom Lehrer - "Silent "E"" - The Electric Company [2:18:26] Tom Lehrer - "The Old Dope Peddler" - Songs by Tom Lehrer [2:20:03] Tom Lehrer - "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" - The Remains of Tom Lehrer [From 1959] [2:21:56] Tom T. Hall - "Ballad of Forty Dollars" - Ballad of Forty Dollars and His Other Great Songs [From 1969] [2:24:23] Jim Sullivan - "So Natural" - If Evening Were Dawn [From 1969] [2:26:58] Lee Hazlewood - "If It's Monday Morning" - Requiem for an Almost Lady [From 1971] [2:30:17] Wet Spell - "Lunch at the Mall" - Wet Spell [2:33:55] Fust - "Jody" - Big Ugly [2:36:10] Florry - "First It Was a Movie, Then It Was a Book" - Sounds Like...Florry [2:41:27] Bill Orcutt, Steve Shelley, Ethan Miller - "A Star Is Born" - Orcutt Shelley Miller [2:48:15] The Budos Band - "Overlander" - VII [2:54:10] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154572

Duration:03:08:21

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A Man's Got to Know His Limitations from Jul 21, 2025

7/21/2025
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - "You Said It" - Dardanella [From 1931; vocals: Helen Rowland & Paul Small] [0:00:00] Peggy Healy and Roy Bargy - "I'll Take an Option on You" - Thanks for the Memory: The Songs of Ralph Rainger [From 1933] [0:05:24] Phil Harris & His Orchestra - "How's About It" - Echoes from the Cocoanut Grove [From 1933; vocal: Phil Harris and Leah Ray] [0:08:39] Irving Kaufman and Vaughn De Leath - "You Took Advantage of Me" - The Irving Kaufman Anthology: The Last Recording Pioneer [From 1928] [0:12:51] Fred and Adele Astaire - "I'd Rather Charleston" - George and Ira Gershwin's Lady, Be Good! [From 1926] [0:16:07] Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra - "Ho Hum!" - In Hollywood 1928-1933 [From 1931; vocal: Bing Crosby and Loyce Whiteman] [0:19:46] Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman - "You're the Top" - No Album [from the film soundtrack of "Anything Goes"] [0:21:59] James Stewart and Marjorie Lane - "Easy to Love" - Hollywood's Best: The Thirties [From 1936, from "Born to Dance"] [0:25:03] Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - "A Picture of Me Without You" - 78 single [vocals: Ramona and Ken Darby] [0:27:52] Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler - "I Only Have Eyes for You" - The Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical [From 1934; from "Dames"] [0:30:59] Bob Hope and Shirley Ross - "Two Sleepy People" - Thanks for the Memories [From 1938] [0:35:10] Allo Darlin' - "In the Spring" - Bright Nights [0:49:45] Autocamper - "Street View" - What Do You Do All Day? [0:52:37] The Bug Club - "Appropriate Emotions" - Very Human Features [0:55:33] Quality Used Cars - "You Won't Find Good Friends Growing on Trees" - Quality of Life [0:59:11] The Third Wave - "Stormy" - Here and Now [From 1970] [1:02:38] Wei Wei Wong - "This Is My Life" - Chip Shop Pop: The Sound of Denmark Street [From 1971] [1:05:45] Dionne Warwick - "We Can Work It Out" - Soulful [1:09:46] Southern Avenue - "Hey Darling" - Family [1:12:16] The Pointer Sisters - "River Boulevard" - The Pointer Sisters [1:16:05] Connie Francis - "I Hear You Knockin'" - Rock 'N Roll Million Sellers [1:21:54] Connie Francis - "Hallelujah I Love Him So" - The Exciting Connie Francis [1:24:14] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour The Section - "Doing the Meatball" - single [1:34:11] T.G. Sheppard with Clint Eastwood - "Make My Day" - single [1:36:49] Helen Reddy - "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" - single [1:39:38] Robby John & the Seven-Teens - "Teenage Bill of Rights, Part I: The Revolution" - single [1:43:02] Hudson Brothers - "Rendezvous" - single [1:44:54] Chairmen of the Board - "Working on a Building of Love" - single [1:48:12] Grace Jones - "Sorry" - single [1:50:38] The Alan Parsons Project - "Old and Wise" - single [vocal: Colin Blunstone] [1:54:33] Meat Loaf - "Great Boleros of Fire / Bat Out of Hell" - No Album [live at the Bottom Line, NYC, 11/28/77] [2:10:57] Montrose - "Bad Motor Scooter" - Montrose [2:24:53] Foghat - "Step Outside" - Energized [2:28:14] Randy California - "Downer" - Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds [2:34:32] R.E.O. Speedwagon - "Sophisticated Lady" - R.E.O. Speedwagon [2:39:57] Blue Öyster Cult - "The Red and The Black" - Tyranny and Mutation [From 1973] [2:44:24] Ten Years After - "I'm Going Home" - Greatest Hits [From 1969] [2:48:25] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154330

Duration:03:08:38