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

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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

Ella talked about the fantastic book How to Be an Explorer of the World. You can find it for sale at an independent bookseller by clicking below:

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Just as an observation, there is a spot for radio personality in the Valley Advocate Best of the Valley poll, and one Ella Childs is a radio personality.  Feel free to vote and to encourage your friends to vote.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – The Bloodmobile
Stefan Weiner (Town Hall) in-studio:
Town Hall – Mary A. Longden (Tour EP)
Alright
Pandora

Segment 2
Guest DJ with Jeff Giles from Dadnabbit
Bruce Willis – Barnyard Boogie
John Hiatt – Your Dad Did
ID/prep to rock
Artichoke – Dog (26 Animals)
Robyn Hitchcock – Balloon Man
Quiet Ones – Ultrafoot
ID

Segment 3
ID
John Lee Hooker – This Is Hip
De La Soul – 3 is the Magic Number
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Secret Handshake
ID
Mark Erelli – Once

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Dog on Fleas – Twistification
Davey Ukelele and the Gagtime Gang – Down the Drain (David Meade)
ID
Caspar Babypants – Shoo Fly
Flannery Brothers – Pirate or Parrot?
ID
Board of Education – Ice Ages Are Fun

Segment 5
Barenaked Ladies – La La La La Lemon
Medeski Martin & Wood – Let’s Go Everywhere
Johnny Cash – Nasty Dan
ID
Peter Himmelman – You’ll Always Be You To Me
Deedle Deedle Dees – Teddy Days
ID

Segment 6
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – They All Ask’d For You (live at Spare the Rock
ID
Readeez – You Have a Heart
Dee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart
ID
Taj Mahal – Shake Sugaree
Gustafer Yellowgold – Slim Gets In ‘Em
ID
TMBG – Your Racist Friend
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Happy New Year! Thanks to Mister G for a great in-studio and to Rosa for guest DJing!

Listen on-demand at our page at WRSI.com!

Here’s a video from Mister G’s visit with us:

Here’s Rosa:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Older
Mister G in-studio
– Bugs
– Chi Chi Castngo
– Chocolate
– Aisle 3

Segment 2
Bing Crosby – Let It Snow!
GrooveGrass Boyz – Auld Lang Syne
ID/prep to rock
Potjeikos – Seasons
Semisonic – This Will Be My Year

Segment 3
Readeez – Meet the Clock
Robbert Bobbert & the Bubble Machine – I Am a Clock
ID
Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
Elizabeth Mitchell – Lovely Day (Sunny Day)
ID
Elvis Costello – Radio Radio

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Guest DJ set from Rosa:
ID
Burchie Green – I Wanna Bring My Dog to Dinner
Chris Scanlon – Fish Daddy
ID
Ralph’s World – Happy Lemons
ABBA – Mamma Mia
ID

Segment 5
Rosa Guest DJ, con’t
Mister G – Sneaky Chuihauhua (sp?)
ID
By Kids for Kids – I Love This Game
Fiesta in Mexico – La Bamba
ID
Beatles – Here Comes the Sun
ID
Israel Kama… – Over the Rainbow

Segment 6
Lunch Money – Snow Globe
ScribbleMonster – Just Happy to Be Me (Look Both Ways)
ID
New Standards – Rattle My Bones
Jingle Punx – Auld Lang Syne
ID
TMBG – Particle Man
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Listen any old time at WRSI.com.

Segment 1 (19:14)
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – O Tannenbaum
Uncle Rock in-studio

Segment 2
Glenn Miller Orchestra – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Vince Gauraldi Trio – Linus and Lucy
The Not-Its! – Last Christmas
ID/prep to rock
Jingle Punx – You Gotta Get Up
Fleshtones – Super Rock Santa
Raveonettes – The Christmas Song
Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hot Christmas
ID

Segment 3
Wee Hairy Beasties – Dinosaur Christmas
Eels – Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
ID
Danny Adlerman & Friends – Christmas on the Block
Big Al Carson with Lars Edegran and his Santa Claus Revelers – Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
Wee Hairy Beasties – Tummy Trouble PSA
ID
Bob Dylan – Must be Santa
Jonathan Coulton – Chiron Beta Prime

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Guest DJ set from Ashley/Jimmies
Esquivel – Jingle Bells
Jimmies – Chanukah, Oh Hanukkah, Oh Hanuka
Enchanters – Mambo Santa Mambo
Drifters – White Christmas
Squirrel Nut Zippers – Carolina Christmas
Jimmies – Nuthin’ For Christmas

Segment 5
Ramones – Merry Christmas
Smokey Robinson – Christmas Everyday
Granville Williams Orchestra – Santa Claus is Ska-ing to Town
Gayla Peavy – I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Jim Carrey & Busta Rhymes – Grinch 2000
Jimmies – Jingle Bells

Segment 6
Martin Sexton – Holly Jolly Christmas
Asylum Street Spankers – Zat You, Santa Claus?
ID
John Denver & the Muppets – When the River Meets the Sea
Fountains of Wayne – Valley Winter Song
XTC – Thanks for Christmas
ID
TMBG – Santa Claus

On Saturday’s show, it’ll be mostly (all?) holiday music. Plus, the River is going commercial free from 6:00 Friday until 6:00 Saturday, so there will be even more show than usual. And! A guest DJ set from Ashley from the Jimmies (with brand new music from them) and an in-studio from Uncle Rock (including what is now my favorite Christmas carol, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?”).

So turn on the radio while you open presents, if you do that. Turn on the radio when you’re not opening presents, if you don’t.