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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – ICU
Lunch Money – Wake Up World (Dizzy)
Haley Bonar – Beautiful You
ID
Uncle Rock (with Elizabeth Mitchell) – There Is No Away (The Big Picture)
ScribbleMonster – The Song of Life (Songs with No Character)
ID

Segment 2
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends – I Won’t Grow Up
Frances England – Spring has Sprung (Family Tree)
ID/prep to rock
Sippy Cups – Springtime Fantastic
Mike Doughty – 27 Jennifers (Golden Delicious)
The Not-Its – When I’m Five
Clementown – Polkabats

Segment 3
Pencilhead and the Playground Punks – Super
Robbert Bobbert – We R Super Heroes
Flaming Lips – Waitin’ for a Superman
ID
Princess Katie & Racer Steve – Tube Sox (Tiny Cool)
Natalie Merchant – The Janitor’s Boy (Leave Your Sleep)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Lennon’s Song – We Love, We Learn, We Grow
The Living Sisters – Cradle (Love to Live)
Red Hook Ramblers – Down By the Riverside
ID
Jimmies – What’s that Sound? (Make Your Own Someday)

Segment 5
Toots & the Maytals – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (The Disney Reggae Club)
Heidi Swedberg & the Sukey Jump Band – Paw Paw Patch (Play!)
ID/book time with Ella (Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Roger Day – Inside My Cranium (Why Does Gray Matter?)
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Diablo Rojo
Roy Handy & the Moonshot – I Am a Dog!!! ((I’m Gonna Be) Your Best Friend)
ID

Segment 6
Sugar Free Allstars – Little Red Wagon (Funky Fresh & Sugar Free)
Walter T and the Rated-Gs – Rough Day at the Sandbox (Rough Day at the Sandbox)
Mister G – Sneaky Chihuahua (Pizza for Breakfast)
ID (Mister G at Pulaski Park tomorrow)
Ralph & Ralph – Arms of My Love (Opposites)
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – They All Ask’d For You (live at Spare the Rock)
ID
They Might Be Giants – Science is Real (Here Comes Science)
They Might Be Giants – Spare the Rock

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Sleepwalkers (No!)
Astrograss – Let Me Stay Up All Night (Let Me Stay Up All Night)
Ratboy Jr. – Floating Up (Smorgasboard)
ID
Bill Harley – Grownups Are Strange (Yes to Running)
Songeez – Love’s Enough
ID

Segment 2
Gustafer Yellowgold – Pinecone Lovely
School for the Dead – Beautiful Day in the Woods (Ayla) (Live at Spare the Rock)
ID/prep to rock
Beatles – Birthday
Justin Roberts – It’s Your Birthday (Meltdown!)
The Jimmies – Somebody’s Birthday (Make Your Own Someday)

Segment 3
ID
Royal Order of Chords and Keys – Cruisin’ for a Snoozin’
Elvis Costello – (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding
Young Fresh Fellows – Picnic (Play)
ID
Alexandra & the Good Batch – Extended Playdate (Extended Playdate)
Baze & His Silly Friends – All My Silly Friends (One Little Smile)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Ralph’s World – The Rhyming Circus
She & Him – Brand New Shoes
Ella Fitzgerald – You’re the Top (Cole Porter Song Book)
Bonerama – You’ve Got a Friend in Me (Funky Kidz)
Jose Conde – Cumbamba (Jazz Playground)
ID

Segment 5
ID
Dream Warriors – My Definition (And Now the Legacy Begins)
Bunny Clogs – Shpilkas (More! More! More!)
Hank Hooper – Hey! Batter! (Playground Fortune Teller)
ID/book time with Ella (Emily Winsnap & the Monster From the Deep)
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke – The Rattling Can

Segment 6
ID
Dar Williams – Babysitter’s Here (at Academy of Music 4/25)
Joe’s Backyard Band – Crow (Kick Up a Breeze)
Earth Wind & Fire – Sing a Song (Greatest Hits)
Keith Munslow – Spork (Homemade Fun)
Sweetback Sisters – Have You Seen My Chicken? (Chicken Ain’t Chicken)
ID
TMBG – E Eats Everything
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Thanks to Clementown for the terrific guest DJ set.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – The Vowel Family
Heidi Swedberg & the Sukey Jump Band – Pop Goes the Weasel (Play!)
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion – Go Waggaloo (Go Waggaloo)
ID
Gourds – Fossil Contender
Monty Harper – Roundy Round (Take Me to Your Library)
ID

Segment 2
Johnny Bregar – Dragonfly
Little Miss Ann – Mockingbird
ID/prep to rock
Hold Steady – Take Me Out to the Ballgame
ScribbleMonster – The World’s Greatest (Chocolate Milk)
Roy Handy & the Moonshot – Socks Are Overrated!!! ((I’m Gonna Be) Your Best Friend)
Quiet Two – Invisible Trousers (Make Some Noise)
ID/book time with Ella (Cornelia Funke – The Thief Lord)

Segment 3
Ralph & Ralph – Opposites
Dean Jones – Hail! Hail! The Gang’s All Here!
Mates of State – Jellyman Kelly
ID
John & Mark – People Have Good Reasons
Keith Munslow – Are You Gonna Eat That? (Homemade Fun)
Recess Monkey – Sack Lunch (Field Trip)
ID

Segments 4 & 5
Clementown guest DJ set:
Twilight Zone Theme
Bellville Rendez-vous – M&S
Yes, We Have No Bananas – Baily’s Lucky 7
Little Bed – Clementown
Big in Japan – Tom Waits
Little Old Money Maker – Meters
Radio One Radio Jingle – Jimi Hendrix
Fixing a Hole – Beatles
Fun Services – Phone Phreaks
Flea Keepers – Clementown
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – Julie Andrews et al
Fistful of Dollars – Morricone
Shining Star – Earth Win & Fire
Runaway Waffle – Clementown
Man from UNCLE theme

Segment 6
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Luck
Run DMC – Reading Rainbow
Deee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart
Baby Loves Jazz – Duck Jam
ID
TMBG – Meet the Elements

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And thanks to the Nields for a great in-studio!  They’re playing at First Churches in downtown Northampton this morning at 10:30.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – I Am Not Your Broom
John Lennon & Yoko – Cleanup Time
Innocence Mission – Wonder of Birds
ID
Joe’s Backyard Band – Dishes
Steve Weeks – Up!
ID

Segment 2
Elizabeth Mitchell – Rollin ‘Baby (Meltdown 2010)
The Good Miss Padgett – So So Good (s/t)
Sarah Lee & Johnny – Take Me to Show and Tell (Go Waggaloo)
ID/prep to rock
Earnie & Neal – Pink Piggie Polka Pancake Picnic (Friends, Family & Pizza)
Soul Coughing – Super Bon Bon (Irresistible Bliss)
Deedle Deedle Dees – Growl Growl (American History + Rock and Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
ID

Segment 3
Justin Roberts – Meltdown (Meltdown)
Tim and the Space Cadets – New Game
Flaming Lips – It’s Summertime
ID
Recess Monkey – Trading Squirrels (Aminal House)
Joe McDermott – Everybody Plays Air Guitar (Everybody Plays Air Guitar)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Charity & the JAMband – Beach
Renee & Jeremy – It Makes You Feel Good
The Clash – Revolution Rock
ID

Segment 5
Nields In-Studio
– Goin’ to Boston
– Organic Farm
– Who Are You Not To Shine?

Segment 6
ID
Bottle Rockets – Coffee Monkey
Ralph’s World – The Coffee Song
Superchunk – Hyper Enough
Boooker T – Hey Ya
ID/book time with Ella (Lunch Lady & the Cyborg Substitute)
TMBG – Four of Two (No!)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Meltdown morning!

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Here’s what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Boss of Me
Sunflow – I Wish You Love
Dan Wilson – Toyland
Bunny Clogs – Are We There Yet?
ID
Box Tops – Neon Rainbow
Elizabeth Mitchell – Winter’s Come and Gone (Live in-studio)
ID

Segment 2
Wee Hairy Beasties – Toenail Moon
Maria Sangiolo – Celia Says (Under the Mystic Sea)
ID/prep to rock
Paul Westerberg – Meet Me in the Meadow (Open Season)
Board of Education – Beverly the Village Misfit
ID

Segment 3
ID
Dog on Fleas – Worms
Troubled Hubble – I’m Pretty Sure I can See Molecules
Rubinoos – Sugar Sugar (Biff-Boff-Boing)
ID
CandyBand – Get Up Already
Flannery Brothers – Shake!

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Recess Monkey – How Do You Build a Robot World Premiere
ID
Teenage Fanclub – Starsign
Deedle Deedle Dees – Underground Railroad (Freedom in a Box!)
Uncle Rock – My Friend Bigfoot (The Big Picture)
ID

Segment 5
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
ID/book time with Ella (Sunlight Slaying)
Jad & David Fair – Grampa’s Shoes
Telephone Company – Grandma
Eno – Needles in the Camel’s Eye
ID

Segment 6
Alastair Moock – Two Mommies (A Cow Says Moock)
Big Star – The Ballad of El Goodo
ID
Alexandra & the Good Batch – Crankymomma
The Go! Team – Feelgood by Numbers
ID
TMBG – Mr. Klaw
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Here’s what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Hello Radio
Frances England – The Books I Like to Read
Bill Janovitz – Gold Day
ID
Bob Dylan – Forever Young
Telephone Company – What Am I Gonna Do With This Baby? (Panda Brain!)

Segment 2
Martin Zellar – Down in the Valley (Down by the Riverside)
Uncle Rock (w/ Elizabeth Mitchell) – There Is No Away
ID/prep to rock
Alexandra & the Good Batch – DEMAND (Extended Playdate)
Mr. Leebot – Bathtub Superstar
Devo – Whip It
ID

Segment 3
Robbert Bobbert – Gravity
Flannery Brothers – One Wasn’t Enough
ID
Alastair Moock – Belly Buttons
Grupo Fantasma – Gimme Some
Ratboy Jr. – Robot Pirate
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Debbie & Friends – Willy Won’t (More Story Songs & Sing Alongs)
REM – We Walk
Deedle Deedle Dees – Teddy Days (Freedom in a Box)
ID
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – This Land is Your Land

Segment 5
Asylum Street Spankers – Down By the Riverside (God’s Favorite Band)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Gotta Be Me (Easy)
Dog on Fleas – Baby U
ID
Tim & the Space Cadets – Superhero
Vampire Weekend – White Sky

Segment 6
Earthworm Ensemble – Bang a Drum
Golden Earring – Radar Love
The Roots – Lovely, Love My Family
ID
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – The Green Grass Grows All Around (Ranky Tanky)
ID
TMBG – Particle Man
TMBG – Spare the Rock