Playlist for 2010-12-04 (Happy Hanukkah!)

Dec 04

Listen any time you like on our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Nine Bowls of Soup
New Standards – Rock and Roll (Rock and Roll)
Elizabeth Mitchell – Keep on the Sunny Side
ID
Ziggy Marley w/ Willie Nelson – This Train
Gustafer Yellowgold – Penguin Day (Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti)
ID

Segment 2
ID
Marvin Pontiac – Small Car
Lunch Money – Miniature Things
ID/prep to rock
Jingle Punx – Chanuka
Boogers – I Wish I Was a Mole
Baby Grands – Dinosaur (Baby Grands II)
ID

Segment 3
Recess Monkey – Jet Pack (Final Funktier)
King Missile – Get Up (Surprise Your Pig)
ID
Dean Jones – Rock Paper Scissors (Rock Paper Scissors)
Luv Clowns – Draw
Big Bang Boom – Spare the Rock
Justin Roberts – Cardboard Box
Debbie and Friends – Willy Won’t

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Guest DJ set from Mama Doni
Mama Doni – The Legend Of Sour Cream Vs. Apple Sauce
Billy Sherwood, Rockin’ Hannukah
GrooveBarbers – I Have A Little Dreidel
Mama Doni – Honey, This Ain’t Money
The Hit Crew – 8 Little Lights of Mine
Tor Hyams & Jkidz – This Is chanukah

Segment 5
Guest DJ set from Mama Doni

Ruby and Ava Lockner – Is It Chanukah or Hannukah?
Graham Clarke – Five Little Latkes
Shira Kilne – Ocho Kandelikas
Barenaked Ladies – Hannukah Blessings
Woodie Guthrie – Hannukah Dance
Mama Doni – Chanukah Fever

Segment 6
Pianosaurus – (A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the) Toystore (Groovy Neighborhood)
Jonathan Richman – Corner Store
ID
Uncle Rock – Please Don’t Make Me Laugh When I’m Upset (live at Spare the Rock) (at Flywheel 12/11)
Generation X – Ready Steady Go
The Not-Its! – Green Light, Go!
ID
TMBG featuring Marty Beller – Speed and Velocity
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Playlist for 2010-11-06

Nov 06

Thanks to Billy Kelly for stopping by.  Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Go For G
Grover & George – The Two ‘G’ Sounds
ID
Mister G – Squirrels
Brady Rymer – Well May the World Go
Bruce Springstreen – Erie Canal
ID
Pete Seeger – Quite Early Morning

Segment 2
Uncle Rock – Very Good Question
Lyle Lovett – Church
ID/prep to rock
Ernie & Neal – Pink Piggie Polka Pancake Picnic
Fatboy Slim – Rockafeller Skank

Segment 3
The Baby Grands – Where Are You From?
Mike Post – Theme from the Rockford Files
ID
The Not-Its! – Say It Loudly
The Pop-Ups – Outside Inside
Arcade Fire – No Cars Go

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Flannery Brothers – Let’s Go! (The New Explorers Club)
Royal Order of Chords & Keys – Cookies and Milk
ID/book time with Ella (Young Masters books)
Cheap Trick – Hello There
Roy Handy & the Moonshot – Space Kitty!!!
ID

Segment 5
Billy Kelly Live in-studio
– We Like LA
– People Really Like Milk
– It’s Close Enough

Segment 6
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Sound of Sunshine
ID
Rhythm Child – I Can’t Play Today
Friendzies – Time 2 Play
Frances England – Ladybug
ID
TMBG – Bed, Bed, Bed (Live) (Here Come the 123s)

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2010-07-31 Playlist

Jul 31

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Cowtown
fIREHOSE – Walkin’ the Cow
Gustafer Yellowgold – Pinecone Lovely
ID
Lee Dorsey – Working in a Coal Mine
Dan Zanes – Tomorrow (Manana)
ID

Segment 2
Primate Fiasco – Apples and Bananas (Wheels on the Bus)
John & Mark – Colors (Children’s Record)
ID/prep to rock
Egg – La La La (I Love You)
Ellen & Matt – Side By Side
ID

Segment 3
Bazillions – Tommy Got In Trouble
Hipwaders – Things You Want
ID
Princess Katie & Racer Steve – Tiny Cool (Tiny Cool)
Prince – Starfish & Coffee (Sign O’ the Times)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Opposite Day
ID
Kevin Kammeraad – Best Poem Ever

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Asylum Street Spankers – Sidekick (live at Spare the Rock)
School for the Dead -Superhero
Tim and the Space Cadets – Superhero
ID
Eric Herman & the Invisible Band – My Lucky Day

Segment 5
Stan Ridgway – Mr. Moon Man (at Iron Horse 9/12)
Jonathan Coulton – I’m Your Moon
ID
Board of Education – 8 Is a Number (live at Spare the Rock)
Baby Grands – Pluto (Baby Grands)
Polyphonic Spree – Running Away
ID

Segment 6
Caspar Babypants – Check It Out (Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti)
Brandi Carlile – Have You Ever (The Story)
ID
Harmonica Pocket – Spiders in My Breakfast
Jonathan Samson – Everything Is Music To Me (Another Kid’s Album)
Todd McHatton – Green Eleven (Sundays at the Rocket Park)
ID
They Might Be Giants – E Eats Everything
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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2010-03-13 Playlist

Mar 13

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Employee of the Month
kd lang and the reclines – Watch Your Step Polka
Laura Daisybee – Swing Swing With Me
ID
Ginger Hendrix – Riding My Pony
The Von Swing Family – Crawdad
Gustafer Yellowgold – Getting in a Treetop
ID

Segment 2
Daniel Lanois – Under a Stormy Sky
Chris McKhool – Spider-Man (Jazz Playground)
ID/prep to rock
Royal Order of Chords and Keys – Cruisin’ for a Snoozin’
Milkshake – Enemies
I’m From Barcelona – Collection of Stamps
ID/book time with Ella (High Rhulain)

Segement3
Uncle Rock – Stop at a Mom ‘n’ Pop
Dean Jones – Frenzy
Flannery Brothers – Wake Up Song
ID
Baby Grands – Sugar Makes Me Loco
Ralph’s World – The Great Outdoors
Debbie & Friends – So, So Happy
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Uncle Albert (Admiral Halsey) – Paul & Linda McCartney
Everything I Own – Bread
Crimson And Clover – Tommy James and the Shondells

Segment 5
Welcome Back – John Sebastien
Theme from The Rockford Files – Mike Post
Silent E – Tom Lehrer
Tie A Yellow Ribbon – Tony Orlando and Dawn
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy –  The Puppini Sisters
Lovely Day – Bill Withers

Segment 6
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell – Hey, Bo Diddley
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – They All Ask’d For You
Wee Hairy Beasties – Housefly Blues
ID
Board of Education – The Lonely Tomato
ID
TMBG – The Mesopotamians
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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2010-01-02 Playlist

Jan 02

You can listen to the show any time at our page at WRSI.com.

So fun to have Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem in the studio!  Here again is some video from their visit:

No book time with Ella this week, since it’s an all-Bill show (except for the in-studio).

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Meet the Elements
Brendan Taaffe – May Well the World Go (Little Boots)
Bob Dylan – Forever Young
ID
Telephone Company – Little Mermaid Time (Panda Brain)

Segment 2
Von Swing Family – Jambalaya (Honey, Sugar Baby Mine)
Tracey & Melissa Beehive – Five Feet High & Rising (‘Til Things Are Brighter)
ID/prep to rock with Elijah
Charity & the JAMband – Get Your Booty Out of Bed (Party Like a Twinkle Star)
Tiny Masters of Today (feat. Karen O) – Hologram World (Bang Bang Boom Cake)
Alastair Moock – Belly Buttons (A Cow Says Moock)
ID

Segment 3
Danny Adlerman & Yosi & Kevin Kammeraad – …and a Happy New Year
Renee & Jeremy – Right Now (C’Mon)
Asylum Street Spankers – Mommy Says Now! (Mommy Says Now!)
The Baby Grands – Diggin’ a Hole to China
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees – Little Red Airplane (American History + Rock & Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun – Have You Ever Wondered (Silly Songs for Kids)
Rhythm Child – Everybody Is the One
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Hey World (Remote Control Version)
ID

Segment 5
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem in-studio

Segment 6
ID
Todd McHatton – It’s a Breeze
Sippy Cups – Springtime Fantastic (Electric Storyland!)
Talking Heads – Don’t Worry About the Government (77)
ID
They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse in Your Soul
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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