2011-01-29 Playlist

Jan 29

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

Incidentally, I couldn’t find the book Ella talked about at Indie Bound.  But it is available in the bookstore at the Eric Carle Museum.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – House At the Top of the Tree (No!)
Tom Waits – House Where Nobody Lives
Songeez – Love’s Enough (Songeez)
ID
Renee & Jeremy – It’s a Big World (It’s a Big World)
Frances England – Tugboat (Family Tree)
ID

Segment 2
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family – Bright Clear Day (Go Waggaloo)
Brady Rymer & the Little Band That Could – One True You (Here Comes Brady Rymer…)
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
CandyBand – Godzilla/Iron Man
Frank Turner – I Still Believe

Segment 3
Verve Pipe – We Had to Go Home
Rubblebucket – Phillips Van
ID
Sugar Free Allstars – Rock Awesome! (Funky Fresh and Sugar Free)
Okee Dokee Brothers – Lucy and Tighty (Take It Outside)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Lunch Money – Dizzy
Lucky Diaz – This Old Man
Book Time with Ella (Language of Flowers)
John Legend & the Roots – Humanity (Love the Way it Should Be)
Dan Zanes & Friends – Fooba Wooba John (with Rosanne Cash) (Family Dance
ID

Segment 5
Peter Rundquist – Bug Feathers
Paul Westerberg – Mr. Rabbit
ID
Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun – Mr. Moon Man
Jenny Lewis – Barking at the Moon
John & Mark – Colors (John & Mark’s Children’s Record)
ID
Psapp – Everybody Wants to Be a Cat

Segment 6
Treehouse 10 – There’s a Beat
ID
Steve Weeks – Don’t Nothing Work Around Here No More
Primate Fiasco – Apples & Bananas
Spoon – Underdog
ID
TMBG – The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Happy Birthday to Cup & Top!

Jan 27

Cup & Top Cafe in Florence has been a great friend to the show since we were both babies — they started five years ago next month, when we had only been on the air about six months ourselves.  They’re celebrating their birthday all month, including a bunch of shows you might call warmups to the Meltdown.  So, check it out:

  • Every Tuesday @ 4pm – Puppets & Sing-Along Time with Anna Sobel of Talking Hands Theatre* (ages 1-5)
  • Saturday Feb. 5th, 5-7pm – Opening reception (and gift basket giveaway!) for Hilltown Families: A Traveling Photography Exhibit Featuring Life and Landscape in Western MA. (all ages!)
  • Wednesday Feb 9th @ 4pm – An afternoon of music with local legend, Jay Mankita* (ages 1-8)
  • Sunday Feb 13th @ 1pm – The World Premier of Mister G’s* Community Chorus! The Chorus is made up of kids 6-10 who love to sing. (ages 5-10)
  • Monday Feb 21st @ 10am – Celebrate President’s Day with The Cat’s Pajamas. Joining us from Philly, this group makes cool music for kids,with dance, puppets, props and costumes. (ages 2-10)
  • Friday Feb 25th, 3:30-5pm at the Florence Civic Center – A skating party and book reading to celebrate the publication of Lisa Papademetriou’s latest book, ICE DREAMS! (ages 8-12)
  • Monday Feb 28th @ 4pm – Celebrate the final day of the Cafe’s 5-year-birthday-month with a “WARMUP to the MELTDOWN*” hosted by favorite local author/illustrator, Jarrett Krosoczka! (ages 4-10)

*These artists will also be appearing at this year’s MELTDOWN, The River’s Family Music and Book Fest, March 26th at JFK.

Wow!  Congratulations to Helen and Cup & Top!  To keep up with happenings there, you can also be sure to “like” the cafe on Facebook.

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Playlist for 1-22-2011

Jan 22

Listen on demand at our page on WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – What is a Shooting Star?
Steve Weeks – Dandelion (Dandelion)
ID
Cake for Dinner – Chasing Bunnies
Devotchka – Comrade Z
Bonga & the Vodou Drums of Haiti – Activity
ID
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – This Land is Your Land

Segment 2
Renee & Jeremy – Is It Really Any Wonder
Nick Drake – Things Behind the Sun
Stephen Cohen – Give Me That Toy
ID/prep to rock
Boogers – In Wonder With the World
Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
ScribbleMonster – I Want to Hold Your Ear
ID

Segment 3
Steve Wynn – Monkeys (Joey’s Song Vol 1)
Baby Loves Jazz Band – 10 Little Monkeys
ID
Replacements – Cruella de Ville
Doc Dauer w/ Liz Phair – Everything’s Controlled by the Brain
Artichoke – Hippopotomus
ID
Gunnar Madsen – Sun Comes Up

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Royal Order of Chords and Keys – Cookies & Milk
ID
Levon Helm – Milkcow Boogie
Flannery Brothers – Green Submarine
ID
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance

Segment 5
Elizabeth Mitchell – Blue Sky (Acoustic Dreamland)
Bill Harley – A Walk Around the Block (Best Candy in the Whole World)
ID
Gustafer Yellowgold – Infinity
Ratboy Jr – Floating Up
ID

Segment 6
Dreamtree Shakers – Sue, The Great Indoor Dinosaur
Lunch Money – Come Over to My Dollhouse
ID
Richard Julian – Spring is Just Around the Corner
Moona Luna – Tomorrow’s Another Day (Manana es Otro Dia)
Deedle Deedle Dees – Vegetarian Tyrannosaurus Rex
ID
TMBG – Four of Two (No!)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Your plans for the weekend.

Jan 21

Up first, of course, you’ll listen to the big show from 8 to 10 Saturday on 93.9 The River.

Then later on Saturday, you’ll go see the Royal Order of Chords and Keys (ROCK) at the Eric Carle Museum at 1:00.  Just $6 at the door, benefiting the Northampton Community Music Center.

Sunday afternoon, the No Nap Happy Hour continues at Flywheel with Grammy winner Bill Harley.  1:00 doors, 1:30 show.  Advance tickets ($8 each, $25 for a family four-pack) are available now; tickets at the door are $10 and $35 for the family four-pack.

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Playlist for 2011-01-15

Jan 15

It sure was fun to have Henry and Sylvia visiting us during the show!

Listen on demand at our page on WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Electric Car
Submarines – Fern Beard
ID
Harry Belafonte – Jump in the Line
Dean Jones – Sing Like a Sparrow
ID
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – Here We Go, Zudio (Many Hands)

Segment 2
Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train
Laura Cantrell – Yonder Comes a Freight Train
Gustafer Yellowgold – Beehive
ID/prep to rock
Deedle Deedle Dees – Baldy
The Not-Its – Accidentally

Segment 3
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Road Trip
Teddy Thompson & Rufus Wainwright – King of the Road
ID
Bill Harley – You’re in Trouble (at Flywheel 1/23)
Frances England – Mind of My Own (Mind of My Own)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Pixies – Tony’s Theme
Sippy Cups – Seven is the New 14
Stevie Wonder – Sugar
ID
Aric Bieganek – Central Park Kitty
Lunch Money – Original Friend
ID

Segment 5
Pizzicato Five – Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy vs. James Bond
Keith Munslow – Spork
ID
Kingsmen – Louie Louie
Roy Handy & the Moonshot- Crayon Man!!!
Luv Clowns – K.I.D.S.
Jeremy Messermith – Tatooine
ID

Segment 6
Book Time with Ella (How to Be an Explorer of the World
Love & Rockets – No New Tale to Tell
I’m From Montreal – Just Because It’s Different Doesn’t Mean Scary
Jonathan Coulton – Mr. Fancy Pants
Kool & the Gang – Jungle Boogie
ID
Flannery Bros – Jump Up and Down dance remix
Bunny Clogs – Shpilkas (More! More! More!)
ID
TMBG – What is a Shooting Star?
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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