Thanks to Jim from ScribbleMonster and to the Alchemystics for helping out with the show!  Head down to First Churches to see the Alchemystics this morning at 10:30!

Listen any time on demand on our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Why Does the Sun Really Shine?
Ella Fitzgerald – My Funny Valentine
Jeremy Plays Guitar – Valentines
ID
Songeez – You Have a Heart
Bob Marley – Three Little Birds
Dog on Fleas – Beautiful World
ID

Segment 2
Gustafer Yellowgold – Wisconsin Poncho
Father Goose – Island in the Sun (it’s a Bam Bam Diddly!)
ID/prep to rock
The Not-Its! – B.A.T.H.
Peter Himmelman – Little Bitty Baby
Music for Aardvarks – Mighty Milo
ID

Segment 3
Alchemystics in-studio:
– Rise Up
– Type of Prayer
– Overcome

Segments 4 & 5:
ScribbleMonster guest DJ set
ID
ScribbleMonster & His Pals – Sesame Street Theme
ScribbleMonster & His Pals – I Want To Hold Your Ear
ID
Scribble Monster & Steve Weeks – Clink, Clank
Steve Weeks – Bartleby Finkleton Will Not Take a Bath
ID

Sesame Street – Pat, Pat, Patty Pat
ScribbleBunny – Stop! (A Spare the Rock Exclusive!)
ID
ScribbleMonster featuring Racer Steve – Someday, Little Children
Princess Katie and Racer Steve – Tiny Cool
ID
Kevin Kammeraad and the Tomato Collection Friends – Numbers Everywhere

Segment 6
ID
Cat & a Bird – Bee Jive
Frances England – Place in Your Heart
ID
Mister G – Snow Day
Justin Roberts – Snow Day
Fawns – Snow Day
ID
TMBG – My Name is Kingof Socks (Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Valley favorites the Deedle Deedle Dees will make their triumphant return to Flywheel on Saturday, February 26, at 1:00, and you can buy discounted advance tickets now.  They’re just $5 per ticket or $15 for a family four-pack, and can be ordered at Brown Paper Tickets starting today.

The Dees will be doing a special Black History Month show featuring tunes about Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, Cool Papa Bell, Satchel Paige, Henry Box Brown, and other folks worthy of song — including some songs never before performed in the Valley.

Tickets are, again, just $5 in advance, $15 for a family four-pack (and infants are free).  A better deal cannot be found in all the thirteen colonies.

The show is part of the No Nap Happy Hour series, presented by Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child and Hilltown Families.

We’re taking part in the weeklong celebration of All Things Gustafer Yellowgold (at least All Things Gustafer Yellowgold’s Infinity Sock), which means today — and today only — you get to see a preview of the video for the song “Cheddar” (also played on today’s show).  Check it out:

(Note that use of the song does not imply any endorsement of the Green Bay Packers, although I am, kinda, rooting for them tomorrow.)

Pre-order the CD/DVD set either through their online store or through a little outfit called Amazon.

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

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Spider
Haley Bonar – Beautiful You
Frank Sinatra – Sunny Side of the Street
ID
Lennon’s Song – We Love, We Learn, We Grow
Dan Israel – Tomorrow Will Be Really Great
ID

Segment 2
Brady Rymer – Keep Up With You
Spiral Up Kids – In the Fiddle is a Song
Special
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Fastbacks – Goodbye, Bird
Deedle Deedle Dees – Rancher Ants
Matt Clark – Cardboard Box
ID

Segment 3
Baze & His Silly Friends – My Family
Jon Samson – Everything Is Music To Me
ID
Salteens – All My Friends Are Different
Robert Randolph & the Family Band – Walk Don’t Walk
Ventures – Walk Don’t Run
ID
Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts – This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
The Que Pastas – In the Sea
Frances England – Jacques Costeau
ID
Cat & a Bird – Cat & a Bird
Feist – Mushaboom (Mocky remix)
ID
April Smith & the Great Picture Show – Say, Say, Oh Playmate (Joey’s Song for Kids Vol 1)

Segment 5
Drive By Truckers – Everybody Needs Love
Book Time with Ella
Earthworm Ensemble – The Traveling Train
Kinks – Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
Trout Fishing in America – Count on Me (Good Enough to Eat)
ID

Segment 6
Billy Kelly – We Could be Pen Pals (with Molly Ledford)
ID
Lunch Money – Original Friend
Bramble Jam – Mariposa Mi Nina
ID
Funky Mama – Sing!
Gustafer Yellowgold – Cheddar
ID
TMBG – Roy G Biv (Here Comes Science)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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

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.

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