New Deedle Deedle Dees Song

Jul 19

Lloyd Miller (a/k/a Ulysses S. Dee) of the Deedle Deedle Dees played a great set at Tuesday Market today, and then stopped by the studio for a visit we’ll air on July 30.  But you can check out a song from their forthcoming (as yet unnamed) album now:

 

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2011-07-16 Playlist

Jul 16

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – My Name is Kingof Socks (Many Hands)
Frank Turner – Rivers (England Keep My Bones)
Syd Straw – Little Liza Jane (Play!)
ID
Ray Charles – You Are My Sunshine
Mister G – Bugs (Bugs!)
ID

Segment 2
Cat & a Bird – Cat and a Bird
Caspar Babypants – Loud and Quiet
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
ScribbleMonster – Loud and Soft
Baze & His Silly Friends – All My Silly Friends
Royal Order of Chords and Keys – Cookies & Milk
ID
Old 97’s – King of All The World (Satellite Rides)

Segment 3
The Not-Its! – I’ve Got a Goat (Tag, You’re It!)
The Thinkers – Bozmo’s Breakfast (Oh Zooty!)
Link Wray and His Ray Men – Run Chicken Run (Deuces Wild)
ID
Grupo Fantasma – Gimme Some
ID
Joe’s Backyard Band – Crow

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Ratboy Jr. – Four Friends
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Snowden’s Jig
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – Here We Go Zudio
ID
Egg – Look Both Ways (feat. Secret Agent 23 Skidoo)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Road Trip
ID

Segment 5
Baron Von Rumblebuss – Ooh La La (Play Me That Song)
Mommie – Shadow
ID
Pop-Ups – Outside Inside
Space Balloons – If You Want a Mustache
ID
Jonathan Richman – New England

Segment 6
The Amoeba People – Cosmology, Your Futon, and You
Mocean Worker – Chick a Boom Boom
ID
Alchemystics – Type A Prayer
ID
TMBG – Stalk of Wheat
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Help a Listener Out

Jul 12

Listener Susan Gehr is working on making a playlist for her and her five-year-old Logan based on this cool-looking book, The ABCs of Rock.  (Each letter has a rock artist.  Jeff Bogle gave it some love here.)  But she’s stuck on a few artists:

  • AC/DC
  • Ozzy Osbourne
  • Sonic Youth
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Velvet Underground
  • X

I had some ideas for Zeppelin and Velvet Underground.  Suggestions for the rest?

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Playlist for 7-9-2011

Jul 09

Listen any old time at our page at WRSI.com!

Thanks to ScribbleJim for filling in! Here’s what he played:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock!
TMBG – Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head
Ernie and Bert – Everybody Wash
ScribbleMonster – Sesame Street Theme
Pinocchio – I’ve Got No Strings
Meat Puppets – Baby Don’t
ID
Cheap Trick – On the Radio

Segment 2
Rufus Thomas – Walkin’ the Dog
ID/Are You Prepared To Rock?
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
The Hipwaders – The Ramble
Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Page – Rock and Roll
Elvis Presley – Rubberneckin’
ID
Sarah Hickman – Eat My Breakfast

Segment 3
Candy Band – The Ants Go Marching
Ralph’s World – We Are Ants
Adam and the Ants – Antmusic
Monty Harper and Mr. Billy – Ants in You Pants Dance Song Song
ID
James Brown – I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Want to Dance)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Mystery Guys – Spider-Man Theme
ScribbleMonster – Superhealthy
Justin Roberts – The Backyard Super Kid
The Apples in Stereo – Signal in the Sky
Eric Herman – Steve the Superhero
ID

Segment 5
The Partridge Family – Summer Days
Aquabats!! – Hot Summer Nights (Won’t Last Forever)!
Pilot – Magic
ID
Robbie Schaefer – Fits Right In

Segment 6
Eels – Saturday Morning
Bay City Rollers – Saturday Night
ID
Steve Weeks – Why
Sparks – Those Mysteries
ID
TMBG – Someone Keeps Moving My Chair

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Playlist for 6-25-2011 – guest hosted by Recess Monkey!

Jun 25

Listen any old time at our page at WRSI.com.

SET 1:
TMBG intro
Fingertips: TMBG
ID
Freeze Tag- The Not Its
Caspar- The Cuckoo
ID
The Board of Education: Lunchtime (Tin Foil Robots)

SET 2:
Original Friend (LM)
Invisible Friend (RM)
ID
Bunk Bed (RM)
My Bed (LM)
ID
Welcome to my Dollhouse (LM)
Super Stuffies (RM)
ID

SET 3:
ID
Book Time
Self- interview

SET 4:
Scribble Monster- Spare the Rock
Live Recess Monkey set:

Flapjacks
Grandmom’s House
Sidekick
Flying
Super Stuffies

SET 5:
ID
Ice Cream Man- Johnny Bregar
New Haircut- Justin Roberts
ID
Pie- Brady Rymer

SET 6:
ID
Heroes and Villains- Beach Boys
That’s really super, super girl, XTC
ID
Particle Man- TMBG
Spare the Rock TMBG

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2011-06-18 Playlist

Jun 18

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Apartment 4
Lunch Money – You Are Here
Kesang Marstrand – In the Land of Dreams
ID
Daniel Hales and the Frost Heaves – Bubble Test
The Good Ms. Padgett – So So Good
Barenaked Ladies – Things
ID
Primate Fiasco – Sunny Side of the Street

Segment 2
Brady Rymer – One True You
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Egg – Sunny Side Up
Hipwaders – Wrong Thing
The Not-Its! – Vacation
ID
Fuzzy – Flashlight

Segment 3
Frances England – Free to Be Me
Uncle Rock – Superhero Medley
ID
REM – Stand
Billy Kelly – It’s Close Enough
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Jayhawks – Smile
Charity & the JAMband – Whatcha Gonna Bring
Young at Heart Chorus – Whip It
ID
Terrible Twos – Olly Olly Oxen Free
Gwendolyn & the Good Time Gang – Red Means Stop
ID

Segment 5
Book Time With Ella (Recess Monkey – Book Time With Ella) (Joan Aiken – the Serial Garden)
Justin Roberts – Pop Fly
Fountains of Wayne – Laser Show
The Go! – Knock Knock Banana
ID
Booker T & the MGs – Green Onions

Segment 6
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke – Don Mario’s Song
Pogues – Metropolis
ID
Mister G – Bugs (Bugs)
Matt & Kim – Good Old Fashion Nightmare
Violent Femmes – Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)
ID
TMBG – My Brother the Ape
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Book Time With Ella for 6-18-2011

Jun 18

Ella talked about The Serial Garden (Liam did too). Click on the book cover to find it for purchase from an independent bookseller:


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