POP Goes The World!
Episodes
Monday May 30, 2011
Monday May 30, 2011
Kickin' off the (unofficial) start to summer in style! Grab a bikini and join me,won't you? Oh, and be a dear and rub some lotion on my back?
Song
Artist
Album
Year
Of All Summers
Kristoffer Ragnstam
Wrong Side Of The Room
2008
Knives Of Summertime
Sparklehorse
Dream For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
2006
Summer Cum
Avi Buffalo
Avi Buffalo
2010
Wait For The Summer
Yeasayer
All Hour Cymbals
2007
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Cannibal Summer
Wax Fang
La La Land
2007
Midnight Summer Dream
Stranglers
Feline
1983
Summertime
Fun Boy Three
The Best Of Fun Boy Three
1984
That Summer Feeling
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Jonathan Sings!
1983
Summertime 1969
Skunks
No Apologies
1996
Reggae Summertime
The Aggrolites
The Aggrolites IV
2009
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Reggae Inna Summertime
Big Mountain
Wake Up
1992
Summer Breeze
Paris Match
Quatro
2003
Picnic In The Summertime
Deee-Light
Dewdrops In The Garden
1994
Rhyme For The Summertime
G. Love & Special Sauce
G. Love & Special Sauce
1994
Long Hot Summer Night
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Electric Ladyland
1968
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Summertime
Girls
Album
2009
Summer Of 79
Japanther
Skuffed Up My Huffy
2007
Sound Of Summer
Art Brut
It's A Bit Complicated
2007
Indian Summer
Manic Street Preachers
Send Away The Tigers
2007
Only In The Summertime
Possum Dixon
New Sheets
1998
Summer Of Love (David Kahne remix)
The B 52's
Love Capsule
2005
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Summerhead
Cocteau Twins
Four Calender Cafe
1993
Summertime
The Sundays
Static & Silence
1997
Summertime Clothes
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
2009
Summer's Life
The Shaky Hands
The Shaky Hands
2006
A Summer Chill
Ivy League
This Is Ivy League
2008
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Constructive Summer
The Hold Steady
Stay Positive
2008
New York Summer
Mink
Mink
2007
It's Summertime,Baby
The Cute Lepers
Can't Stand Modern Music
2008
Monday May 09, 2011
Monday May 09, 2011
My annual mother's day tribute to my late mother. Since yesterday was Mother's day and I don't get to celebrate it anymore since my mother has since passed, I've been taking The Monday Morning Breakfast Blend's the day after and paying tribute to her by playing some of her favorite songs. My mother was a very musical person, and I inherited my love of music from her. Because of her, I grew up exposed to some of the most beautiful songs in the great American song book. As a child, I would beg my mother to turn off that horrible "old people's music". Now, of course, some 35 odd years later, it's the purest music I know. So here's hoping that wherever she may be, she's dancing and singing along!
"Solitude" - Louis Armstrong
"Out Of Nowhere" - Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Band
"Just One Of Those Things" - Richard Himber & His Ritz Carlton Orchestra vocal by Stuart Allen
"You're The Top" - Hal Kemp/Skinnay Ennis
"Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams" - Frank Sinatra
"Pennies From Heaven" - Billie Holiday
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"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - The Ink Spots
"Up A Lazy River" - The Mills Brothers
"When The Sun Sets Down South" - Sidney Bechet
"Sweet Lorraine" - Nat King Cole
"Ain't Misbehavin'" - Fats Waller
"My Blue Heaven" - Fats Domino
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"Petootie Pie" - Ella Fitzgerald w/Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
"Coquette" - Jimmie Lunceford
"South American Way" - Carmen Miranda
"Brazil" - Django Reinhardt
"Buona Sera" - Louis Prima
"Sh-Boom" - The Chords
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"Why Do Fools Fall In Love" - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
"Rama Lama Ding Dong" - Edsels
"I Wonder Why" - Dion & The Belmonts
"Blue Moon" - Marcels
"Only You" - The Platters
"I Only Have Eyes For You" - The Flamingos
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"La Vie En Rose" - Louis Armstrong
"The Way You Look Tonight" - Billie Holiday
"They Can't Take That Away From Me" - Sarah Vaughan
"Baby It's Cold Outside" - Ella Fitzgerald w/Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
"Dancing Cheek To Cheek" - Frank Sinatra
"Don't Be That Way" - Benny Goodman
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"The Suits Are Picking Up The Bill" - Squirrel Nut Zippers
"When You're Smiling/The Sheik Of Araby" - Louis Prima
"Jumpin' At The Woodside" - Count Basie & His Orchestra
"Memphis Blues" - Art Hode's Hot Five w/Sidney Bechet
"Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby" - Louis Jordan
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"Hello,I Must Be Going" - Groucho Marx
Tuesday May 03, 2011
Tuesday May 03, 2011
In the 6 years that WRIR has been on the air,it has established itself as the gold standard for community radio in the country. Not only are we the largest and most successful LPFM in the country,when congress and the senate was deciding whether or not they wanted to expand the Prometheus Radio Project (the bill that allows for licencing LPFM radio stations across the country),WRIR was cited as a shining example of the bills success. We certainly couldn't have done any of this without YOU and your support over the last 6 years! This radio station belongs to YOU,the people of Richmond! Please continue to show your support by donating whatever you can to keep this most worthy Richmond institution growing! Plus,I'll be playing the interview I did with Pretty & Nice last week including some songs they recorded live in our studios!
Song
Artist
Album
Year
Oh,You Pretty Things
David Bowie
Hunky Dory
1971
Heart It Races (Architecture In Helisinki cover)
Dr. Dog
Poor Boy
Split Enz
True Colours
1980
That Is Why
Jellyfish
Bellybutton
1990
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I Am Disappeared
Frank Turner
England Keep My Bones
2011
Good Thing
The Woodentops
Giant
1986
Options
Gomez
Whatever's On Your Mind
2011
Under The Bridge
John Doe/Jill Sobule
A Day At The Pass
2011
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Charlie Parker
I'm From Barcelona
Forever Today
2011
Where I'm Going
Cut Copy
Zonoscope
2011
Live Those Days Tonight
Friendly Fires
Pala
2011
Tokyo
The Pinker Tones
Modular
2010
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How Dangerous
Smoking Popes
This Is Only A Test
2011
Bikeracks
Cola
1998
Nice To Know You
Bare Wires
Seeking Love
2010
This Is Pop
XTC
White Music
1978
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Rebirth Of A Nation
Gills & Wings
Gills & Wings
2009
The Garden Eleanor
Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears
Mad Valentines
2009
Schizophrenia
Jukebox The Ghost
Everything Under The Sun
2010
Temptation (New Order cover)
Jukebox The Ghost
Covers & B sides
2010
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Yonkers
Pretty & Nice
Fantastic Artifact 7"
2011
Pretty & Nice interview pt.1
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Pretty & Nice
recorded live in the WRIR studios
Pretty & Nice interview pt.2
New Czar
Pretty & Nice
recorded live in the WRIR studios
Pretty & Nice interview pt.3
Grab Your Nets
Pretty & Nice
recorded live in the WRIR studios
Pretty & Nice interview pt.4