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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 1, 2025

12/1/2025
Bill Frisell - "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" - East West [live at Yoshi's, Oakland, CA, May 2004] [0:00:00] Larry Coryell / Emily Remler - "How Insensitive" - Together [0:13:54] Lenny Breau - "New York City" - Mo' Breau [recorded 1977/78, orig. released 1981] [0:22:17] Johnny Smith Trio - "Autumn Leaves" - Designed for You [0:27:23] Django Reinhardt - "I Cover the Waterfront" - Brussels 1947, Paris 1951, 1952, 1953 [from 1953] [0:31:48] Sal Salvador and His Quartet - "I Can't Get Started" - Music to Stop Smoking By [0:36:51] Barney Kessel - "Time Remembered" - The Essential Albums 1955–1963 [from "Let's Cook!," 1962] [0:39:23] Sessa - "Revolução Interior" - Pequena Vertigem de Amor [0:56:41] Samantha e Adrian - "Depois do Amor" - Samantha & Adrian [0:59:21] Hollie Cook - "In the Pictures" - Shy Girl [1:02:30] Barry Can't Swim - "All My Friends" - Loner [1:06:04] Brother Vernard Johnson - "My Testimony" - Give Up to God [1:09:24] Sister Irene O'Connor - "Keshukoran" - Fire of God's Love [From 1973] [1:14:33] Rich(ard) Dawson - "Orbuculum" - The Sky Was a Mouth Again [1:17:00] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Mac Davis - "Everybody Loves a Love Song" - single [1:31:08] The Mamas & The Papas - "Glad to Be Unhappy" - single [1:33:44] War - "Me and Baby Brother" - single [1:35:23] The Front Runners - "The Big Hurt" - single [1:38:46] The Freshies - "Tell Her I'm Ill" - single [1:41:48] Sam Cooke - "Summertime" - single ["Bumps Blackwell Orch."] [1:45:30] Porter Wagoner - "Legend of the Big Steeple" - single [1:47:54] Dionne Warwicke and Spinners - "Then Came You" - single [1:51:05] Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama - "Fix It Jesus" - single [1:55:00] Set: I'll Take the Rhumba Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra - "The Lady in Red" - Latin for Lovers [with Don Reid and Chorus] [2:09:08] Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra - "I'll Take the Rhumba" - Babalu [from 1947] [2:11:56] The Andrews Sisters - "The Walter Winchell Rhumba" - No Album [from the "NK Musical Showroom" radio show, 2/20/46] [2:14:55] Veloz and Yolanda - "Rhumba Instruction, Part 1" - Veloz and Yolanda Teach You at Home How to Dance the Rhumba, Samba [2:17:45] Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - "Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga" - Hits of '41 [vocal: Helen O'Connell] [2:20:17] Alice Faye and Cesar Romero - "Romance and Rhumba" - No Album [from "Week-End in Havana," 20th Century Fox 1941] [2:23:23] Lina Romay with Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra - "Rumba Rumba" - Maracas, Marimbas, and Mambos: Latin Classics at M-G-M [From "Two Girls and a Sailor," 1944] [2:26:21] Pvt. Cecil Gant - "Rhumba Boogie Woogie" - The Cecil Gant Collection 1944-51 [From 1945; "The G.I. Sing-sation"] [2:29:10] The King Cole Trio - "Rhumba Azul" - Nat "King" Cole Trio - 1943/49 [from 1947] [2:32:13] Veloz and Yolanda - "Rhumba Instruction, Part 2" - Veloz and Yolanda Teach You at Home How to Dance the Rhumba, Samba [2:34:41] Ruth Wallis - "It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba" - Rhumba Party [2:37:24] Harold Sasahara & Club Nisei Orchestra - "Japanese Rumba" - Hawaiian Nisei Songs [2:40:14] Billy Rose and His Orchestra - "Rhumba Amalia" - 78 single ["augmented by the Cuban Rhythm Boys"] [2:42:31] George Barnes - "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba" - Guitar Galaxies [2:45:01] Mel Tormé with Billy May - "The Rhumba Jumps" - Olé Tormé [2:47:18] Ella Fitzgerald - "Just Another Rhumba" - Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book [from 1959] [2:49:33] Jesse Winchester - "Rhumba Man" - Nothing But a Breeze [2:55:05] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158758

Duration:03:08:27

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Episode from Nov 24, 2025

11/24/2025
Loituma - "Eriskummainen kantele" - Things of Beauty [From 1995; Finland; "My Harp"] [0:00:00] Triakel - "I Himmelen" - Triakel [From Sweden; "In Paradise"] [0:05:54] Väsen - "Josefins Dopvals" - Spirit [From Sweden; "Josefin's Baptism Waltz"] [0:10:44] Garmarna - "Cow-call from Halsingland / Klevabergselden" - Garmarna [From 1993; Sweden; "Kleveberg's Fire"] [0:13:55] Hedningarna - "Min Skog" - Trä [From 1994; Sweden; "My Grove"] [0:17:56] Hoven Droven - "Skogspolska" - Groove [From 1996; Sweden; "Forest Polka"] [0:21:59] Frigg - "Hasse" - Oasis [From Finland] [0:27:27] Swåp - "Ian's Jävla Jig / Ian's Jävla Polska" - Du Da [From Sweden] [0:32:10] Värttinä - "Laiksa" - Ilmatar [From Finland; "Lazy"] [0:36:25] JPP - "Puikkoristikko" - History [From 1992; Finland; "Cross of Sticks"] [0:40:59] Trond Kallevåg - "Lighthouse Boogie" - Minnesota [0:56:02] James Yorkston Featuring Nina Persson - "Love That Tree" - Songs for Nina and Johanna [1:00:00] Laura Baird - "Days of Blue" - Under Blue [1:05:03] Baba Yaga - "Dear Sister" - Baba Yaga [Recorded in 2009] [1:09:22] Jenna Nicholls - "You, Me and the Moon" - The Commuter [1:11:38] Chet Baker - "I'll Be Around" - Swimming by Moonlight [previously unreleased, 1986] [1:15:01] Les Baxter, Harry Revel, & Dr. Samuel Hoffman - "My Troubles Float Away Like Falling Leaves" - Music Out of the Moon / Music for Peace of Mind [From 1947] [1:19:02] Hydroplane - "Houdini's Plane" - A Place in My Memory Is All I Have to Claim [1:21:02] Primitive Motion - "Higher" - Lost Frequencies [1:25:19] Set: Single File: some 45s played in a row for about a half-hour Herbie Mann - "Aria" - single [1:35:18] Harold Butler - "Last Date" - single [1:38:19] Unknown Artist - "Pennywhistle" - single ["The Great Sound of Swingin' Thom"] [1:40:55] Dion and the Belmonts - "In the Still of the Night" - single [1:43:34] Earl Scruggs and the Earl Scruggs Review - "Country Comfort" - single [1:46:11] The Country Boys - "Country Boy Bounce" - single [1:49:02] The Cuban Heels - "My Colours Fly" - single [1:51:07] Bruce Springsteen - "You Can't Sit Down" - single [with Southside Johnny and the Miami Horns and the E Street Band, 12.31.77 at Capitol Theatre in Passaic] [1:54:28] Serge Gainsbourg - "Initials B.B." - Comic Strip [From 1968] [2:12:47] Project Gemini & Wendy Martinez - "Ce qui est intact" - Time Stands Still / Le temps s'arrête [2:15:53] Omerta - "Amour Fou" - Collection Particulière [2:20:02] The Limiñanas Featuring Lio - "Liverpool" - I've Got Trouble in Mind (7" and Rare Stuff 2009 / 2014) [2:26:02] L'Epee - "La Brigade De Maléfices" - Diabolique [2:31:04] Jacques Dutronc - "Hippie Hippie Hourah" - Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi: Jacques Dutronc 1966-1969 [From 1967] [2:35:40] Monique Thubert - "Booff" - Ultra Chicks Volume 1: Filles in the Garage [From 1968] [2:38:59] Catherine Jauniaux - "Origine des femmes" - Fluvial [2:41:39] Videoclub - "En Nuit" - Euphories [2:45:59] FAUVE≠ - "KANÉ" - Blizzard [2:49:23] Vendredi Sur Mer - "Lune est l'autre" - Marée basse EP [2:53:25] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158510

Duration:03:08:33

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Sorry I Am for What I Have Done from Nov 17, 2025

11/17/2025
Junior Brother - "The Lark in the Morning" - Imaginational Anthem Vol. XIV: Ireland [0:00:00] Marty Barry and Conal O'Kane - "Jigs: The Strayaway Child / I Ne'er Shall Wean Her" - Sorry I Am for What I Have Done [0:05:18] Aisling Drost Byrne, Brendan McCarthy, and Conal O'Kane - "The New Roundabout / John Collin's Fancy / Allstrum's" - Jump Out of It [0:09:29] Jon Wilks - "Willow" - Needless Alley [0:12:09] Anne Briggs - "Tongue in Cheek" - Sing a Song for You [From 1973] [0:15:00] Foggy - "Airport Story" - It's Foggy Again [0:18:51] Friends - "Once in a Winter Town" - A Game For All Who Know: The H & F Recordings Box [From 1972] [0:21:55] Molly Drake - "I Remember" - Molly Drake [from the late '50s] [0:23:41] Shirley Collins - "One Night As I Lay on My Bed" - A Favourite Garland [From 1971] [0:26:44] Cerys Hafana - "Carol Mynyddog" - Angel [0:31:26] Martin & Eliza Carthy - "Waking Dreams (Awake, Awake)" - The Moral of the Elephant [0:37:47] Silly Sisters (Maddy Prior / June Tabor) - "What Will We Do?" - No More to the Dance [0:41:39] Ancient Hostility - "The Ballad of John Birch" - Sing As Loud As You Can [0:43:38] Steeleye Span - "The Lark in the Morning" - Please to See the King [0:50:07] Juana Molina - "La Paradoja" - DOGA ["The Paradox"] [1:07:17] Agnes Martian - "Cycle Heart Echo" - Elsewhere [1:12:36] Michael Garrison - "For You and Me" - Eclipse [vocal: Shari Barna] [1:20:28] Selwin Image - "The Unknown" - All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 [From 1981] [1:24:44] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Bubba Lou - "Love All Over the Place" - single [1:31:53] John Holt - "Satisfaction (Version)" - single [1:34:42] Nat "King" Cole - "The Blues from Kiss Me Deadly (I'd Rather Have the Blues)" - single ["Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle"] [1:38:07] Paul Revere & the Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay - "Undecided Man" - single [1:41:01] Gladys Knight & The Pips - "This Child Needs Its Father" - single [1:42:51] Courtney Love - "Hey! Antoinette" - single [1:45:48] Southern Comfort - "River Woman" - single [1:47:48] Johnny Cash and June Carter - "Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man" - single [1:50:47] McKinley Travis - "You've Got It and I Want It" - single [1:53:22] Bobby Vinton and His Orchestra - "Disco Polka (Pennsylvania Polka)" - single [1:56:04] The Cowsills - "Is Your Love Alive?" - The "Cocaine Drain" Album [recorded in 1978, never released] [2:11:22] The Telephone Numbers - "Goodbye Rock and Roll" - Scarecrow II [2:14:19] Good Flying Birds - "Pulling Hair" - Tallulah's Tape [2:17:23] Paris 1942 - "Paris 1942" - Paris 1942 [From 1982] [2:20:24] Jim Jarmusch and Anika - "These Days" - Father Mother Sister Brother: Original Music from the Film ["Berlin version"] [2:24:44] Los Texao - "No Time" - El Sonido "Niebla" de Los Texao [From the early '70s] [2:28:18] Golden Earring - "Are You Receiving Me" - Moontan [2:31:34] Pau Riba - "Maria" - Electroccid Àccid Alquimístic Xoc [From 1975] [2:40:55] MAK - "That's Life" - Maybe I'm Dreaming [From 1971] [2:48:50] Françoise Hardy - "Le Temps de L'amour" - Tout Les Garçons et les Filles [bonus live track from reissue, live in Paris 24 Nov 63] [2:51:29] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158285

Duration:03:08:10

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Episode from Nov 10, 2025

11/10/2025
Chick Bullock's Levee Loungers - "Here It Is Monday and I've Still Got a Dollar" - Songs of the Depression [From 1932] [0:00:00] Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "Rise 'n' Shine" - The Big Broadcast Volume 2 [Ramona, vocal; from 1932] [0:04:50] Phil Harris and His Orchestra - "What Have We Got to Lose? (Hi-Ho-Lack-a-Day)" - The Thing About Phil Harris [From 1933] [0:07:27] Fred Astaire - "Music Makes Me" - Tea for Two: The Songs of Vincent Youmans [with Van Phillips & His Orchestra; from 1933] [0:10:50] The Cavendish Three - "Shakespeare in Rhythm" - Sweetest Harmony: 25 Vintage Harmony Groups [with Bruce Campbell; from 1940] [0:13:38] Harry Roy and His New Lyricals - "I've Got "It" (But It Don't Do Me No Good)" - The Big Broadcast Volume 12 [Bill Currie, vocal; from 1931] [0:16:38] Nat Shilkret and His Victor Orchestra - "You Were Meant for Me" - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes [Scrappy Lambert, vocal; from 1929] [0:19:35] Connee Boswell - "That Old Feeling" - Heart & Soul [with Ben Pollack & His Orchestra; from 1937] [0:22:25] Joan Blondell, Etta Moten - "Remember My Forgotten Man" - Lullaby of Broadway: The Best of Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros. [from "Gold Diggers of 1933," 1933] [0:26:00] Kyle Hamlett Duo - "ithell without you" - Across the Horizon [0:47:38] Cowboy Sadness - "Seltzer" - Across the Horizon [0:51:02] David Murphy - "The March of the King of Laois" - Imaginational Anthem Vol. XIV: Ireland [0:54:33] Emily Robb - "Shiny Sister Theme" - Soundtrack to The Space Between Attack and Decay [0:58:53] Nana Mouskouri - "The Song of the Soldier" - Nana Mouskouri Sings Hadjidakis No. 2 [1:02:04] Muireann Bradley - "Clay Pigeons" - Rose Dogs EP [1:05:44] Sleeping Jesus - "In the Morning" - Shotgun [1:09:15] Beans on Toast - "The Glastonbury Oak" - Kill Them with Kindness [1:12:06] Gary McFarland and Peter Smith - "Patricia" - Butterscotch Rum [1:16:17] American Patchwork Quartet - "Shenandoah" - American Patchwork Quartet [1:21:48] Set: Single File Single Artist Special: David Bowie David Bowie - "Up the Hill Backwards" - single [1:35:32] David Bowie - "Hang On to Yourself" - single [1:38:06] The Arnold Corns - "Moonage Daydream" - single [1:40:38] David Bowie - "Move On" - single [1:44:30] David Bowie - "Sound and Vision" - single [1:47:40] David Bowie - "Blue Jean" - single [1:50:59] David Bowie - "Repetition" - single [1:53:51] David Bowie - "Knock on Wood" - single [1:56:45] David Bowie - "Golden Years" - single [1:59:43] Bad Company - "Bad Company" - Bad Company [2:12:21] Bachman Turner Overdrive - "Shotgun Rider" - Freeways [2:16:46] Alice Cooper - "Desperado" - Killer [2:22:01] Elton John - "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" - Tumbleweed Connection [2:25:27] Rory Gallagher - "Out on the Western Plain" - Against the Grain [2:30:21] Thin Lizzy - "Cowboy Song" - The Peel Sessions [2/12/76] [2:34:12] Aerosmith - "Back in the Saddle" - Rocks [2:39:37] Warren Zevon - "Frank and Jesse James" - Warren Zevon [from 1975; alternate version from reissue] [2:44:01] Electric Light Orchestra - "Wild West Hero" - Out of the Blue [2:48:39] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158057

Duration:03:08:18