Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Here's what is on the list for 8/27:

They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
Cowcube - Toys in the Hood
Elizabeth Mitchell - Ladybug Picnic
Ella Fitzgerald - Don't Fence Me In (by the way, we like this book about Ella Fitzgerald)
Bob Dorough & Friends - Three Is A Magic Number
The Mr. T Experience - Unpack Your Adjectives
Lucas Miller - I Don't Wanna Be Part Of The Food Chain!
Dan Zanes & Friends - All Around the Kitchen
Carole King - Chicken Soup With Rice
Suni Paz - Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
Aquabats - Pizza Day
Joe McDermott - Ice Cream Truck
The Cornell Hurd Band - Don't Wipe Your Face with Your Shirt
Abbi Rose - Summertime
The 5.6.7.8's - Woo Hoo
Buckwheat Zydeco - Iko Iko
Ella Jenkins - This Is An Afro Mood
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Thula Mtwana
Brave Combo - Mexican Hat Dance
Lionrock - Fire Up The Shoesaw
Ralph's World - Things That I Like
Babaloo - Room For Everyone
The Evens - Vowel movement
The Deedle Deedle Dees - John Brown
Zachary Sanders - Electricity, Electricity
Candy Band - Ken Lost His Head
******** Surfers - Underdog
The Fastbacks - One Of These Things
Apples In Stereo - The Rainbow
Jim & Jennie And The Pinetops - Down in the Arkansas
Wendy Gelsanliter - Cabell And Sally
Laurie Berkner - Under A Shady Tree
Leadbelly - Skip to My Lou
Leonardo Biciunas - Tools
Brady Rymer - I Found It!
Manu Chao - Bongo Bong
MilkShake - Bottle Of Sunshine
Sweet Honey In The Rock - I Got Shoes
They Might Be Giants - L M N O
Yo La Tengo - My Little Corner Of The World
The Beatles - Blackbird
Mr. Richard - Might As Well Sing

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Ella is out of town this week and I will be gone this Saturday, so this week's show is prerecorded by just me. I'm much less interesting without Ella, but there's still some good stuff. For seven days, you can download this week's show here.

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We have this week's and the first week's show up -- last week is lost to the sands of time.

I'll get a playlist for this week's show up eventually. Lot of good stuff, though, let me tell you, including great new music from Brady Rymer and Babaloo.

Thanks for listening, and remember, the over-the-air broadcast is this Saturday from 6 to 8 in the morning on 103.3 FM, Valley Free Radio.

Well, no archive, but I went and grabbed the playlist. I'll get links up to the performers' websites sometime next week.

They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
Pete Seeger - Bought Me a Cat
Woody Guthrie - Race You Down the Mountain
Billy Bragg & Wilco - My Flying Saucer
Justin Roberts - Great Big Sun
They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incadescent Gas)
REM - We Walk
Leonardo - Do It Myself
Cedella Marley Booker & Taj Mahal - Three Little Birds
Adrian Belew - I Am What I Am
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - This Land is Your Land
Lucas Miller - Go Wild - Read!
Elizabeth Mitchell - So Glad I'm Here
Skankin' Pickle - I Missed The Bus
Lead Belly - Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
John McCutcheon & Band - Turkey In the Straw
Mr. Richard - Airplane Jane
Joe McDermott - Everything Grows
Dan Wilson - Willie the King
Lunch Money - Roller Coaster
Milkshake - School
Elvis Presley - Old MacDonald
Thunderlords - Old Man Olaf
fIREHOSE - For the Singer of REM
REM - Funny Happy Monsters
Justin Roberts - I Lost the Tooth I Lost
Justin Roberts - Brontosaurus Got a Sweet Tooth
Tom Waits - Heigh Ho
Mike Doughty - Fire Truck
Lucas Miller - Stinkle Stinkle Little Skunkle
Eric Herman & the Invisible Band - In The Box
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Kinder Words
Deedle Deedle Dees - Gesundheit to the Lady in Blue
Dan Zanes - Erie Canal
Candyband - Playdough
Prince - Starfish & Coffee
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm

Yes, we start and end every show with Dr. Worm. I'm not sure I'm in favor of it, but it's Ella's show too.

Thanks for listening! Comments welcomed, either in the comments field below or via e-mail.

Bill & Ella

Well, we had a really fun show this morning, playing a lot of new stuff, but the new program I was using to record it promptly crashed when I tried to save it. So, unfortunately, unless I can find the file buried in my laptop somewhere, we won't have an archive of this week's show.

I'll try to get by the studio early next week to get the playlist so we can at least put that up.

Thanks for listening; we'll get these problems worked out...

The station is having a bunch of work done this weekend, so it's possible that we won't be on tomorrow morning. I think we will be, but if you tune in and we're not there...well, sorry about that.

Also, I'll be out of town the following Saturday. We may try to pre-record something or it may be someone sitting in.

Got some great stuff in the mail this week.

Milkshake, who we already liked from the "Happy Song" on the CD Baby compilation of kids' music (and which we played last week) is definitely going to get some more play on the show. Both CDs are great; on first listen, I think I like the new one a bit more.

Less well-known, at least to me, is Leonardo and his "Makin' Lemonade" CD. Good stuff, not overly cute, and clearly pays attention to writing songs that are good as songs, not just as kids' songs.

More stuff in the bag to listen to yet, including a bunch of stuff from Smithsonian Folkways and Eric Herman and the Invisible Band...and I haven't been in the studio in a couple of days, so more may have come in the mail.

Hopefully some of these bands will come through the area...

If you have some kid-friendly music, feel free to send it in! Send an e-mail to get details.

Here's what we played our very first week:

Laurie Berkner - Victor Vito
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Milkshake - Happy Song
Sara Hickman - Radiation Man
Skankin' Pickle - Onyonghasayo
Dan Zanes - Siyahamba
Sweet Honey in the Rock - Shoo Fly
Frank Black - Jumpin' Beans (from the Rev-105 Radio Archive CD)
Matthew Sweet - Scooby Doo
Cake - Mahna Mahna
Justin Roberts - Day Camp
B-52s - Wig
Alejandro Escovedo - Sad & Dreamy (The Big 1-0)
Kelly Hogan - Senor El Gato
Asylum Street Spankers - I'm My Own Grandpa
Ella Jenkins - Angry Words
Brian Eno - I'll Come Running
Lucas Miller - Livin' in a Wetland
Joe McDermott - My Cat Can Fly
Elizabeth Mitchell & Lisa Loeb - New Morning
They Might Be Giants - Particle Man
Pizzicato 5 - I (but I meant to play Twiggy)
Ralph's World - Bellybutton
Chic St. Man - Everybody Be Yo' Self
Michelle Shocked - Flying Lesson
Gear Daddies - Dream Vacation
Dan Zanes - Wonderwheel
Candy Band - Get Up Already
Shonen Knife - Frogphobia
8 1/2 Souvenirs - Happy Feet
Talking Heads - Stay Up Late
Suburbs - Cows
Justin Roberts - In the Car
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxler & Brave Combo - I Will Never Clean Up My Room
Buckwheat Zydeco - Mardi Gras Mambo
Replacements - Buck Hill
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm (yep, again).

Please note that many of these artists are not kids' artists, and some of the websites may well have material that is not appropriate for kids.

I think we'll be on again this coming Saturday from 6 to 8. Please, call in or e-mail us with suggestions, etc. Thanks for listening!