This week Ella talked about The Great Brain.  Follow the link below to buy it from an independent bookseller, and support your local bookstores!

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You can listen any old time you’d like on our page at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Seven
Okee Dokee Brothers – Bluegrass for Breakfast
Jay Mankita – Eat Like a Rainbow
Justin Roberts & Little Dave – Super Snappy Paps (Healthy Food for Thought)
ID
Dan Zanes – What a Wonderful World (with Lou Reed)

Segment 2
Oran Etkin – Little Lamb Jam
Andrew Jones & Spirit House – Billy Goat Drink Clear Water
ID/prep to rock
Sara Hickman – Eat My Breakfast
Egg – Summer Today
The Verve Pipe – Cereal
ID

Segment 3
ID
Billy Kelly – Is This a Joke?
Talking Heads – I Zimbra
Gustafer Yellowgold – Pterodactyl Tuxedo
ID (Carle 10/23 1:00)
Firewater – Ponzi’s Revenge
Clementown – Skeleton Flowers
Laura Freeman – Frankenstein
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Justin Roberts – Big Field Trip
Los Lobos – Heigh Ho
ID
The Fuzzy Lemons – Jump in a Puddle
Muppets & Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

Segment 5
Frank Turner – Photosynthesis
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Speak The Truth (Underground Playground)
ID
Dean Jones – Sing Like a Sparrow
Jeremy Plays Guitar – Use Your Words
ID
School for the Dead – Back to School

Segment 6
Flannery Brothers – In the Middle
Elizabeth Mitchell – Car Car
ID
Todd McHatton – Schadenfreude Fortune Cookie
Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
ID
TMBG – Fake Believe (Type B)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

You can listen any time at our page at WRSI.com.

Thanks again to Trace and Len for talking about their excellent book.  You can pick it up at TraceBeaulieu.com.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – The Secret Life of Six
Deedle Deedle Dees – Major Deegan
The Nields – Goin’ to the Zoo (All Together Singing in the Kitchen)
ID
ScribbleMonster – The Game of LIFE
Monkees – Pleasant Valley Sunday

Segment 2
Spanglish Wrangler – They Call It Spanish Monday
Alastair Moock – A Cow Says Moo
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Man or Astro-Man? – Mystery Science Theater 3000 Theme
Interview with Trace Beaulieu and Len Peralta (part 1)

Segment 3
Candy Band – Time Out
Holmes Brothers – Shine
Flannery Brothers – High 5 Dance (The New Explorer’s Club)
ID
Justin Roberts – Trick or Treat (Jungle Gym)
Interview conclusion

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Barenaked Ladies – Another Postcard
Jeremy Plays Guitar – Jump So High
Van Halen – Jump
ID
The Salteens – All My Friends Are Different

Segment 5
Cloud Cult – You Were Born
Artichoke – Honey (Bees)
Mary Lou Lord & Semisonic – Sugar Sugar
ID
Bramble Jam – Don’t Squish That Bug
Dre Towey – Your House
ID

Segment 6
Matt Clark – Band-Aid
Mavis Staples – I Belong To The Band
Verve Pipe – Be Part of the Band
ID
Billy Kelly – I Say I’m Trying to Decide
Oran Etkin – High Low (Wake Up Clarinet)
TMBG – D is for Drums
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Happy to pass this along from Amber of Boston Children’s Music:

On October 30th the KidsBeet concert series will be putting on a fun kids concert to benefit the Franciscan Hospital for Children (located in Brighton). This hospital serves so many special needs kids in the Boston area, particularly through outpatient therapy. My son receives PT here and they are just amazing!

The concert will feature three artists: Ben Rudnick & Friends, Charlie Hope, and Suzie Shelton. The event will be hosted by Rik Barron who will also play some of his kids songs between sets. It’s going to be a really fun show.

The concert will be at First Church Boston on October 30th from 10:30am to 12pm. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for kids. For more info visit http://kidsbeet.eventbrite.com/

Today, we recorded a really fun phone interview with Trace Beaulieu and Len Peralta about their book Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children. We had to edit it down a lot for the radio (it’ll air this Saturday), but here’s the full thing, unedited:

Trace Beaulieu and Len Peralta

The book is hilarious.  It is available now via tracebeaulieu.com (click on the link at the bottom of the “Under Construction” page) and you should get it.

Listen any time at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – James K. Polk (Factory Showroom)
Dog on Fleas – Give It Away (When I Get Little)
Matt Clark – Sitting Up Straight (Funnier Little Fella)
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell & Family – Green, Green Rocky Road (with Dan Zanes) (Sunny Day)
Keith Munslow – Watchin’ All the Cars Go By
ID

Segment 2
Pete Seeger with the Rivertown Kids – De Colores (Tomorrow’s Children)
Bill Harley – A Walk Around the Block
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Primal Scream – Movin’ On Up
ScribbleMonster – All Ready To Go!
ID

Segment 3
Salteens – I’m So Happy (Kid Songs)
REM – Furry Happy Monsters
ID
Cloud Cult – Today We Give Ourselves to the Fire
Pop-Ups – Up and Down
Artichoke – The Commune
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Keller Williams Guest DJ Set:
1 louis prima – i wana be like you
2 jerry garcia david grisman – jenny jenkins
3 toots and the maytals – country roads
4 cake – mahna mahna

Segment 5
Keller Williams Guest DJ Set 2:
1 Keller Williiams – mama tooted
2 pointer sisters – Twelve
3 choo choo soul – bullet train
4 tom t hall sneaky snake
5 Presidents of the united states of america – dune buggy

Segment 6
ID
Lunch Money vs. Grody – You Are Here (Remix)
Frances England – Mind of My Own (Mind of My Own)
ID
Jim Cosgrove – Cool Daddy (Swimming in Noodles)
Buckwheat Zydeco – Zydeco Boogaloo
Justin Roberts – New Haircut
ID
TMBG – Alphabet of Nations
TMBG – Spare the Rock

We had a wonderful time on Sunday afternoon at the Pines.  Perfect weather, a lovely venue, great help, and, above all, terrific performances.

You can find photos from the day at Josh Stearns’s Flickr Set, Tom Adams’s Facebook album, and my Facebook album.  I’ve set up a YouTube playlist (embedded below) with the videos I’ve posted and a montage Tom Adams (of Reelife Productions) put together; I’ll add more videos to that if I come across them.  You can also go to my YouTube channel to see my videos separately.  The videos include Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell & Family, all performing together for the first time in public (joined by a bunch of other folks, including Tony Vacca, Rani Arbo, Scott Kessel, and others!).

I don’t know the precise numbers yet, but I can say safely that we raised thousands of dollars.  Thanks to all of you and to all of our amazing sponsors for the support!

And, as I noticed late in the day, the day of this event marked exactly six months out from Meltdown 2011!