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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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East Orange, NJ

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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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@WFMU

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English

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Episode from Oct 13, 2025

10/13/2025
Grand Funk Railroad - "We're an American Band" - Grand Funk Hits [From 1974] [0:00:00] Yo La Tengo - "We're an American Band" - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One [0:05:39] Art Brut - "Formed a Band" - Bang Bang Rock & Roll [0:12:36] Ben Vaughn Combo - "My First Band" - single [0:15:02] Meal Ticket - "Day Job" - Goodbye Nashville, Hello Camden Town: The Pub Rock Anthology [From 1977] [0:18:11] Waylon Jennings - "The Entertainer" - Never Could Toe the Mark [0:22:33] Jo Jo Gunne - "60 Minutes to Go" - The Asylum Recordings [From 1973] [0:25:25] Tim Rose - "The Musician" - The Musician [From 1973] [0:29:34] Les Brown and His Orchestra - "While the Music Plays On" - Sentimental Journey [From 1940; Doris Day, vocal] [0:33:09] Nilsson - "How to Write a Song" - Sandman [0:44:17] Helen Reddy - "Think I'll Write a Song" - Free and Easy [0:46:57] Barry Manilow - "I Really Do Write the Songs" - This One's for You [demo, 1976] [0:49:21] Rupert Holmes - "Studio Musician" - Rupert Holmes [0:51:43] The Kinks - "Session Man" - Face to Face [From 1966] [0:55:26] Bread - "The Guitar Man" - Retrospective [From 1972] [0:57:35] Michael Nesmith - "American Airman" - Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings [From 1970] [1:02:32] Hank Williams, Jr. - "Hamburger Steak, Holiday Inn" - Eleven Roses [1:04:07] Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts - "Support Tours" - Manhattan [1:07:06] Half Man Half Biscuit - "Running Order Squabble Fest" - This Leaden Pall [1:09:34] Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - "Where the Hell's My Money?" - Frenzy [1:11:31] Swansea Sound - "Corporate Indie Band" - Live at the Rum Puncheon [1:18:20] Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Workin' for MCA" - Second Helping [1:21:51] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour AC/DC - "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)" - single [1:31:56] Bad Company - "Movin' On" - single [1:34:42] Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta - "Don't Call Us We'll Call You" - single [1:38:00] Graham Parker and the Rumour - "Mercury Poisoning" - single [1:41:19] Bill Parsons and His Orchestra - "The All American Boy" - single [1:44:23] Adverts - "One Chord Wonders" - single [1:47:16] Terry Jacks - "Rock N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" - single [1:49:52] Kris Kristofferson - "To Beat the Devil" - single [1:53:34] Mott the Hoople - "Saturday Gig" - single [1:59:51] Loudon Wainwright III - "Motel Blues" - The Atlantic Recordings [From 1971] [2:11:06] Loudon Wainwright III - "The Home Stretch" - More Love Songs [2:12:57] Loudon Wainwright III - "Career Moves" - Career Moves [2:16:44] Lee Hazlewood - "The Perfomer" - Poet, Fool or Bum [2:19:38] Bobbie Gentry - "Lookin' In" - The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters [From 1971] [2:23:12] Tom T. Hall - "Homecoming" - Homecoming [From 1970] [2:27:14] Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - "Turn the Page" - Live Bullet [2:30:36] Geils - "I'm Falling" - Monkey Island [From 1977] [2:35:44] Flo & Eddie - "Just Another Town" - The Best of Flo & Eddie [From 1973] [2:41:25] Sonny Curtis - "This Is the Last Song I'm Ever Gonna Sing" - The Sonny Curtis Style [2:44:42] Dave Edmunds - "A1 on the Jukebox" - Tracks on Wax 4 [2:47:14] The Blasters - "Rock and Roll Will Stand" - Hard Line [2:50:28] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157118

Duration:03:08:45

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Episode from Oct 6, 2025

10/6/2025
Spanky & Our Gang - "Three Ways to Tomorrow" - The Best of Spanky & Our Gang [From 1968] Margo Guryan - "Spanky and Our Gang" - Words and Music [From 1968] Emmit Rhodes - "Pardon Me" - The American Dream The Status Cymbal - "In the Morning" - In the Morning The Alan Copeland Conspiracy - "A Bubble Called You" - A Bubble Called You Eternity's Children - "Flowers" - Flower Music: Testify's 2025 Marathon Premium [From 1968] The Eighth Day - "It Takes the Rain (To Make the Flowers Grow)" - On the Eighth Day... Marshmallow Way - "Good Day" - Marshmallow Way The Mother Love - "A Carousel of Daydreams" - A Carousel of Daydreams The Tradewinds - "Little Susan's Dreamin'" - Excursions The Lovin' Spoonful - "Me About You" - Revelation: Revolution '69 Piggietails - "I Want You" - Piggietails Harte Attack - "Running Thru My Mind" - Summer's Over [From 1973] Alley Girl - "Theme for Gentle Eyes" - Peregrine Rambler Jon Camp - "Kerosene Goodbye" - Proceed Animal, Surrender! - "Shenandoah" - A Boot for Every Bane Delicate Steve - "Nearly Everything" - Luke's Garage Geir Sundstøl - "Mats" - Sakte film Wow - "La Radura" - Rosa di Luce ["The Glade"] Calibro 35 - "The Twang" - Exploration SAULT - "H.T.T.R." - 10 Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Al Green - "Keep On Cryin'" - single The Belle Stars - "Sweet Memory" - single The Boyfriends - "Romance" - single Tommy Sosebee - "Sittin' in the Backseat of Your Heart" - single The Sullivans Polka Orchestra - "Sullivans Medley" - single Tommy James - "Boo, Boo, Don't 'Cha Be Blue" - single Millie Jackson - "My Man, A Sweet Man" - single Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde - "A Very Good Year" - single The Michael Stanley Band - "He Can't Love You" - single Ralph McTell - "Ollie the Otter" - Songs from Alphabet Zoo Stackridge - "Syracuse the Elephant" - BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert [2/15/73, Paris Theatre] Richard Digance - "Beaver the Believer" - Live [11/28/74, Rainbow Theatre] The Incredible String Band - "Giles Crocodile" - First Girl I Loved [live in Canada, 1972] Ralph McTell - "Unwin the Unicorn" - Songs from Alphabet Zoo David Bowie - "Joe the Lion" - "Heroes" Zwei Null Zwei - "SUV (On Fire)" - Zwei Null Zwei Orcutt Shelley Miller - "Four-Door Charger" - Orcutt Shelley Miller https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156875

Duration:03:08:43

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Sunlight, Moonlight, Good Times, Boogie from Sep 29, 2025

9/29/2025
Arlo Guthrie - "Crash Pad Improvs" - Alice's Restaurant: Original Motion Picture Score [0:00:00] Stephen Lawrence - "Miss Industrial Progress" - Bang the Drum Slowly: Music from the Soundtrack of the Paramount Release [0:04:31] John Barry - "Highway 101" - Petulia: Original Motion Picture Sound Track [0:07:16] John Barry - "Blues and Out" - The Knack...and how to get it: Original Motion Picture Score [organ: Alan Haven] [0:09:19] John Lurie - "Vesuvio's" - Get Shorty: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [0:12:05] Quincy Jones Featuring Astrud Gilberto - "Who Needs Forever" - The Original Sound Track Album of John Le Carre's The Deadly Affair [0:14:44] Gato Barbieri and His Orchestra - "Return – Tango (La Vuelta)" - Last Tango in Paris: Original Motion Picture Score [0:17:48] Tom Waits - "(Meet Me in) Paradise Alley" - Paradise Alley: Original Soundtrack [0:20:22] Melina Mercouri - "Love Theme from Phaedra / Goodbye John Sebastian" - Phaedra: Original Motion Picture Sound Track [0:24:41] James William Guercio - "Tell Me" - Electra Glide in Blue: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [0:30:13] Nick Cave - "Let It Be" - I Am Sam: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture [0:38:00] Essendon Airport - "Malibu" - MOR [0:57:07] Thee Reps - "Espadrilles" - Cryptocartography [1:02:17] Sister Irene O'Connor - "Mass – 'Emmanuel'" - Fire of God's Love [From 1973] [1:08:13] Arnold Mars - "Smoldering Copal Fills the Air" - Lost Island [1:13:20] Appliqué - "Nagi" - Appliqué [From 1973] [1:16:15] Austin Potter - "Mona Lisa" - New Romantic [1:20:19] Olivia Barton - "My First House" - For Myself and For You [1:22:52] Françoise Hardy - "Dans le monde entier" - Mon Amie La Rose [live in Paris, 1965; "In the Whole World"] [1:26:14] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Aztec Camera - "All I Need Is Everything" - single [1:35:29] The Love Unlimited Orchestra - "Satin Soul" - single [1:39:02] Dusty Springfield - "Silly, Silly Fool" - single [1:42:31] Bobby Braddock - "Ruby Is a Groupie (With a Cosmic Cowboy Band)" - single [1:44:57] Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart - "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" - single [R.I.P. Bobby Hart] [1:47:02] Meg Myles - "My Melancholy Baby" - single [1:49:02] The Jacksons - "Blame It on the Boogie" - single [1:51:15] Billy Bragg - "Days Like These" - single [1:54:44] The 5th Dimension - "The Declaration" - single [1:57:03] Joseph Decosimo - "Glory in the Meetinghouse" - Fiery Gizzard [2:13:08] Sally Anne Morgan - "Callahan" - Second Circle the Horizon [2:16:12] Murphy Campbell - "Lonesome John" - Murphy Campbell EP [2:20:45] Liam Grant, Grayson McGuire, & Trevor McKenzie - "Let Me Fall" - The Sun Is Not True [2:24:32] Uncle Tupelo - "Theme from "The Waltons"" - March 16-20, 1992 [bonus track on reissue] [2:26:55] Lillian King - "Tiber Creek" - In Your Long Shadow [2:28:15] Dillon Warnek (Feat. Margo Price) - "Bluebird" - As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep [2:33:17] Elvis Presley - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - Sunset Boulevard [rehearsal, 8/16/74] [2:37:35] Will Rainier - "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" - Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em [2:42:05] Jenny Don't & The Spurs - "Paso del Norte" - Live at the Spur [2:46:09] Lone Justice - "This World Is Not My Home (I'm Just a Passin' Through)" - Live at the Palomino 1983 [2:49:48] Neko Case with the Sadies - "This Little Light" - The Tigers Have Spoken [2:52:20] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156642

Duration:03:08:47