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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 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

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Episode from Nov 3, 2025

11/3/2025
Kevin Ayers - "Decadence" - Songs for Insane Times: An Anthology 1969-1980 [From 1973] [0:00:00] Kevin Coyne - "Marlene" - Peel Sessions [From 1973] [0:10:10] Kevin Dunn - "Nadine" - Tanzfeld [0:12:51] Kevin Morby - "City Music" - City Music [0:17:15] Kevin Shields - "Ikebana" - Lost in Translation: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack [0:23:54] Kevin Roth - "Felix" - The Quiet Times [0:25:26] Kevin Lee & Heartbeat - "Tonight" - Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago [From 1982] [0:28:16] The Wedding Present - "Give My Love to Kevin" - 12" single ["acoustic version"] [0:31:26] Equipment Pointed Ankh - "Eggs a Little Late" - Eggs a Little Late [0:44:18] Barry Adamson - "Scala Posters (Mondo Bongo)" - Scala!!! [0:49:37] Ad Libitum - "Take Five" - Peace Chant Vol.8: More Private Jazz from Germany 1974-1986 [0:51:58] Accordion Tribe - "Dolores" - Accordion Tribe [0:55:20] Lianne La Havas - "Disarray" - single [1:00:12] Allison Young - "Lavender" - single [1:05:20] Hollie Cook - "Rockaway" - Shy Girl [1:08:25] Marden Hill - "Oh Constance" - The Rubens Room - El Records: In Camera [From 1988] [1:12:04] Neighbourly - "Lost It" - single [1:15:34] Added Dimensions - "Preoccupied" - Jane from Preoccupied America [1:19:07] Wire - "Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW" - 154 [From 1979] [1:20:43] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for a half-hour or so The Mar-Keys - "Foxy" - single [1:31:39] Don and Dewey - "Justine" - single [1:33:21] Diana Ross - "Upside Down" - single [1:35:25] Clarence Reid - "A Real Woman" - single [1:39:00] Kinship - "Weep" - single [1:41:52] Joey G. - "Goodbye Steeltown" - single [1:45:31] The Confidentials - "Teenage Divorce" - single [Thanks, Clay Pigeon!] [1:49:42] Jerry Reed - "Down on the Corner" - single [1:52:21] Stereolab - "Tempter" - single [1:55:39] Lukas Nelson and Sierra Ferrell with the Travelin' McCourys - "Unknown Legend" - single [2:12:37] The Louvin Brothers - "Lorene" - My Baby's Gone [From 1960] [2:15:29] Nanci Griffith - "Listen to the Radio" - Storms [2:18:07] Mickey Newbury - "Please Send Me Someone to Love" - Mickey Newbury Recorded Live at Montezuma Hall [San Diego State, March 6, 1973] [2:21:14] Kris Kristofferson - "San Francisco Mabel Joy" - Frisco Mabel Joy Revisited [2:24:22] Bob Dylan - "I Was Young When I Left Home" - Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18, 1956-1963 [at Bonnie Beecher's House in Minneapolis, 12/22/61] [2:28:37] Bobby Bare - "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" - The Moon Was Blue [2:34:21] Jenna Nicholls - "All Those Days You Won't Remember" - The Commuter [2:38:20] Eve Adams - "Couldn't Tell the Time" - American Dust [2:42:24] Shelto Marx - "Keep Right Except to Pass" - Shelto Lightens Up [2:45:28] John Prine & Mac Wiseman - "Old Rugged Cross" - Standard Songs for Average People [2:50:41] Continental Drifters - "I'm a Dreamer" - Drifted: In the Beginning & Beyond [From 2001] [2:54:03] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157813

Duration:03:08:54

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What a Palaver!: Random Pull Special #9 from Oct 27, 2025

10/27/2025
Alan Mills and the Shanty Men - "Haul Away, Joe" - Songs of the Sea [0:00:00] The Brass Choir - "Mas Que Nada (Pow, Pow, Pow)" - Brass Impact [0:04:11] Bob & Phil and the Orchestra - "The Telephone Song" - Hot Line for Sound [0:06:50] Seldon Powell and His All Stars - "The Clearasil Hop" - At the Hop Volume One [0:08:50] The Teenbeats - "Rawhide" - Surf Bound [From 1962] [0:11:54] Teddy Fire - "Snails, Bugs, and Lizards That Go Slow" - Fluxing Headset Man [0:14:25] Tiny Alice - "Stock Exchange of Love" - Tiny Alice [0:17:01] Rare Air - "Dee Dee Diddley Bop" - Hard to Beat [0:19:43] Nicu Pourvu - "Ciocirlia" - Panpipes of Rumania [0:24:03] Arthur Moreira Lima - "Odeon" - Tangos, Waltzes, Polkas of Ernesto Nazareth [0:39:05] Jerzy Milian - "Młoty Na Widowni" - Ashkhabad Girl (1967–1972) ["Jerks at the Audience"] [0:41:13] Teisco - "Sfida Sul Mare" - Musiche de Teisco [1975–1980; "Challenge on the Sea"] [0:43:51] Phluph - "Ellyptical Machine" - Phluph [Clay Pigeon's Random Pull!] [0:50:41] Bruce Mackay - "The Girl of Stone" - Bruce Mackay [0:53:39] Nanette Natal - "Annie's Magical Brew" - ...The Beginning [0:58:51] Kimera and the Operaiders - "The Lost O?era (Club Raiders Mix)" - 12" single [ Michele with One "L"'s Random Pull!] [1:07:24] Easy - "Castle Train" - Easy [1:12:39] The Raj Quartet - "Whoops! What a Palaver!" - Whoops! What a Palaver! ["Introducing Lord Clifton"] [1:15:18] Pablo Moses - "Don't Force Me" - Tension [1:18:19] God's Little Monkeys - "Ball of Confusion" - Lip [1:21:52] Set: Single File: 45s I've never heard before for a half-hour Band of Outsiders - "Tote Bag Ladies" - single [1:32:19] Ferdinand et les Philosophes - "Les belles images du temps passé" - single ["Beautiful Pictures of Times Gone By"] [1:34:05] Cecilia et Ses Ennuis - "On m'appelle "Pussycat"" - single ["They Call Me 'Pussycat'"] [1:38:35] Gloria Balsam - "Fluffy" - single [with Psycotic Pineapple] [1:42:08] Bagpipe Operation - "Habanera" - single [1:46:02] Fire in the Kitchen - "Cold Rain and Snow" - single [1:48:26] Bad Axe - "Coachman" - single [From 1973, apparently] [1:50:20] Babylon Dance Band - "Someday" - single [1:53:24] Incroyable Jungle Beat - "Los Box / T Pour le Sex" - Urbi et Orbi [ Jessica's Random Pull!] [2:07:29] Kraan - "Andy Nogger" - Andy Nogger [2:10:25] Noizunzuri - "Dontakubayashi (Party Song)" - Hoyo [Hoyo = "Embrace"] [2:14:15] Greenslade - "Feathered Friends" - Greenslade [2:16:49] The Patrick Hazell Band with Sally Weisenburg featuring Joe Price - "Freight Train" - After Hours [ Matt Warwick's Random Pull!] [2:30:35] Cedric Benoit - "Gator Breakin'" - Cajun! Cajun!! Cajun!!! [2:32:41] Glenda Faye - "Porter Wagoner's Introduction/Black Mountain Rag" - Flatpickin' Favorites [2:36:02] The Good Ol' Persons - "You Don't Miss Your Water" - I Can't Stand to Ramble [2:40:04] Paul Smith - "Tim's Flatted Fifth" - Mysterious Barricades [2:45:50] Carla Sciaky - "Urge of Going" - In Between [2:49:56] The Boarding Party - "Farewell Shanty" - 'Tis Our Sailing Time [2:53:32] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157585

Duration:03:08:48

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If You Touch Me, You'll Understand What Happiness Is (Singles Going Steady special) from Oct 20, 2025

10/20/2025
Set: At the Movies Hot Butter - "At the Movies" - single [0:02:06] Joanie Sommers - "Theme from "A Summer Place"" - single [0:04:41] Nando Monica e il Suo Complesso - "La Ragazzola" - single [theme from "La Ragazzola"] [0:06:48] Percy Faith and His Orchestra - "Baby Doll" - single [theme from, uh, "Baby Doll"] [0:08:56] Billy May and His Orchestra - "Tempesta su Washington" - single [from "Advise and Consent"] [0:11:11] Nino Rosso e il Suo Complesso - "Ho Bisogno di Te" - single [from "Crimine a Due"] [0:13:49] The Jazz Combo - "Theme from "I Want to Live"" - single [0:16:14] Anton Karas - "The Harry Lime Theme" - single [from "The Third Man," 1948] [0:19:09] Mia Farrow - "Lullaby from "Rosemary's Baby" Part 1" - single [0:22:24] Dean Martin - "That's What I Like" - single [from "Living It Up"] [0:24:46] War - "Nappy Head (Theme from "Ghetto Man")" - single [0:26:46] Love Unlimited Orchestra - "Theme from King Kong (Pt. 1)" - single [0:30:07] John Belushi - "Louie Louie" - single [from "National Lampoon's Animal House"] [0:33:14] The Wedding Present - "Theme from Shaft" - single [0:36:08] ZZ Top - "Doubleback" - single [from "Back to the Future Part III"] [0:39:27] The Soggy Bottom Boys - "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" - single [from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"] [0:43:17] John Otway - "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" - single [0:47:27] Set: Some 45s from Turkey Zümrüt - "Siz Erkekler" - single ["Unchain My Heart"] [1:02:44] Üç Hür-El - "Hoptirinom" - single [kind of a nonsense word, like "Boom-bang-a-rang"] [1:04:40] Selda - "Tatlı Dillim, Güler Yüzlüm" - single ["My Sweet Talker, My Smiling Face"] [1:07:40] Morovvet Kekilli - "Artık Mum Yakta Ara" - single ["Now Light the Candle"] [1:10:20] Zümrüt - "Gel Unutalim" - single ["Let's Forget"] [1:13:20] Üç Hür-El - "Mutluluk Bizim Olsun" - single ["Happiness Will Be Ours"] [1:16:38] Selda - "Mapushanelere Güneş Doğmuyor" - single ["The Sun Does Not Shine on Prisons"] [1:20:35] Morovvet Kekilli - "Mühim Değilsin" - single ["You're Not Important"] [1:23:24] Altin Gün - "Süpürgesi Yoncadan" - single ["Her Broom Is Made of Clover"] [1:26:18] Set: Some Beserkley Chartbusters on 45 Jonathan Richman - "Road Runner" - single [1:38:40] Greg Kihn - "Love's Made a Fool of You" - single [1:42:56] The Rubinoos - "As Long As I'm With You" - single [1:45:44] Earth Quake - "Lovin' Cup" - single [1:47:50] Spitballs - "Neanderthal Man" - single [1:50:38] Son of Pete and the Automatic Band - "Mankind" - single [1:53:55] Greg Kihn Band - "The Break Up Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" - single [1:55:38] Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - "The Morning of Our Lives" - single [1:58:22] Set: Stinkle File, or Singles Going Stinky Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - single [2:14:50] Stevie Wonder - "I Just Called to Say I Love You" - single [2:17:54] Diana Ross and Lionel Richie - "Endless Love" - single [2:22:12] Starship - "It's Not Enough" - single [this is the group emeritus of this segment] [2:26:41] Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch" - single [2:30:50] Julio Iglesias - "America" - single [2:34:18] Bryan Adams - "Straight from the Heart" - single [2:38:42] Barbra Streisand - "Memory" - single ["The Theme from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical 'Cats'"] [2:42:55] Barry Manilow - "Memory" - single [because one memory isn't enough] [2:46:00] Dionne & Friends - "That's What Friends Are For" - single [2:50:49] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157350

Duration:03:08:55