#blessedbe
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, with Tom Paxton and Riders in the Sky, "A Pirate's Life"
Stan Rogers double-play! "The Wreck of the Athens Queen" and "Maid on the Shore"
Faith Petric, "The Crafty Maid's Policy"
Charlie King, "Kugelsburg Bank"
From Annie Get Your Gun, Ethel Merman, "Moonshine Lullabye"
Going out on Chris Calabrese's piano version of "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)/Grem Grinning Ghost"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
Pete Seeger and friends, "Old Time Religion"
Arlo Guthrie, "The Motorcycle Song (An Education)"
Lonnie Donegan, "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor?"
Dave Van Ronk, "Mares Eat Oats" and "One Meatball"
The Neon Girls, "Will You Support Me?"
Malvina Reynolds, "The Little Mouse" [with swears!]
Going out on James Galway, "Pie in the Face Polka"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
Now for a complete change of pace...
Meatloaf, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"
Meg Christian, "Look Within"
Joel Mabus set! "The Fiddle and the Bow" and "The Preacher and the Flood"
The Limeliters, "A Million a Day"
Garnet Rogers, "Come From the Heart"
Jackie DeShannon, "What The World Needs Now is Love"
Going out on John Bayless's Bach Improv piano version of "All You Need is Love"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
Gwydion, "The Lady's Bransle"
Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra, "Springtime's Message"
Clearly Guilty, one of the finest filk groups in the Midwest, "Red is the Rose"
Todd Allen, "Lord of the Dance"
Saro Lynch-Thomason, "Savior Spring"
Classic...
Claudia Schmidt and Sally Rogers, "Blessing"
"Bless us all, Set us all free!"
Going out on The Elders, "Turnpike"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !!
Sue Fink, "Leaping Lesbians"
Reba McEntire, "What If It's You?"
Finjan, "I Wanna Fellow"
Sweet Honey in the Rock, "Mae Francis"
Sound Circle, "Would You Harbor Me?"
The Kingdom Choir, "Something Inside So Strong"
Going out on Kay Gardner, "See My Wings Shining"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
Bob Newhart, "The Grace L. Ferguson Airline (and Storm Door Company)"
By request...
Steve Goodie, "Tweeting on a Jet Plane"
Steve Miller Band, "Fly Like an Eagle"
Elton John, "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be a Long Long Time)"
Going out on The Beatles, "Flying"
#FlyBoring, #StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
Simon and Garfunkel, "At the Zoo"
Going out on Bent Fabric and His Piano, "Alley Cat"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
For the petty tyrants...
Paul Simon, "Wristband"
John Prine, "Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone"
"...wondering how a man could send a child actor
to visit in the land of the wind-chill factor."
Pete Seeger (with Jeff Haynes), "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy"
"Waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool says to push on..."
Going out on Brave Combo, "Hail to the Chief/Mistrel Boy"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe!
A couple of my contributions:
Richard Shindell, "Are You Happy Now?"
From Carnival, Kaye Ballard and Henry Lascoe, "Humming"
Arlo Guthrie, "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"
John Gorka, "Out of My Mind"
The Jordanaires, "Break My Mind"
Linda Ronstadt, "You're no Good"
Going out on Mozart, Divertimento in F Major, K. 522 by Musici de Montreal
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !!
Alive, "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues"
Saffire and the Uppity Blues Women, "Ain't Nobody's Business"
Jaiya, "Firedance"
Emerald Rose, "Freya, Shakti"
Going out on Kay Gardner and Nuradafina Phili Abena, "Happy Life"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
Next week's #SourceOfTheDance will be the annual @PhoenixRadio1208 tradition, The Anti-Valentine's Day Show! Special 2-hour episode of horrible stories and songs!
The section of "Peter and the Commissar" where they are *butchering* classical music with "here and there we just changed one little note" and the other variations has to have been one of the hardest, most entertaining jobs the Pops ever did.
"There never was a commissar who ever touched a star,
So I'd rather be like Peter than the highest commissar"
Going out on Hans Reichel, "Le Bal" from "Whirlygigs and Pryophones"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe!
FYI: Martin Luther King, "Why I Oppose the Vietnam War" quotations pulled from full text at https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=819842&p=5924547
Going out on Pete Seeger, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, "We Shall Overcome"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
[OK, I looked it up, and they don't use the Oxford comma, and also they don't use the ampersand when just using the initials, so I've been doing it wrong all weekend]
Peter, Paul and Mary, "Weep for Jamie"
PPM, Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and Seeger/Hays' "If I Had a Hammer"
Going out on Tony Trischka Band's version of Pete Seeger's "Goofing Off Suite"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
Stealers Wheel, "Stuck in the Middle with You" in honor of singer Joe Egan
Four Tops, "Can't Help Myself/Sugar Pie Honey Bunch" in honor of Duke Fakir
Eagles, "Heartache Tonight" in honor of songwriter JD Souther
Bee Gees, "Staying Alive" in honor of drummer Dennis Bryon
Going out on The Allman Brothers, "Jessica"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe!
Sweet Honey in the Rock, "Seven Principles"
Rhonda Thomas, "Kwanzaa"
Spike Jones, "Happy New Year"
Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra, "The Turning Year: A New Year's Toast"
Straight No Chaser, "Auld Lang Syne"
Going out on The Groove Grass Boyz, "Auld Lang Syne"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe and a Happy and Healthy New Year for everyone!
"That old wind don't mean you trouble / he don't care or even know / he's just walking down the darkness toward the morning"
Going out on Jack Jezzro, "Santa Lucia"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
#HappyEverything !
OK, I'm back. Faculty Senate ran long...
Spike Jones and His City Slickers, "Popcorn Sack"
By Request...
Fast Food Rockers, "The Fast Food Song"
Christine Lavin, "Shopping Cart of Love: The Play"
Peter Paul van Camp, Cathy Fink and Duck Donald, "Shortenin' Bread"
Billy Joel, "Root Beer Rag"
The Irish Rovers, "MIss Fogarty's Christmas Cake"
Going out on James Johnson, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, Jammin' on "Tea For Two"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
#PhoenixBirthdayWeekend
#PhoenixRadio1208
Damn Yankees, "Heart"
Steve Goodman, "The Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" and "Go Cubs Go"
Doll Skin, "Love Is Dead and We Killed Her"
Contest Song:
The Beatles, "And I Love Her"
Christine Lavin, "Ballad of a Ball Game"
Bob Newhart, "Noone Will Ever Play Baseball"
Abbott and Costello, "Who's On First"
Going out on Los Straitjackets, "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
More Birthday Shows tomorrow!
https://phoenixradio1208.com/11thBirthday200To101
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !
By Request!
Ozzy Osbourne, "Mama, I'm Coming Home"
Glenn Yarbrough, "Rocky Top"
@PhoenixRadio1208 Advent Calendar Song of the Day: Michael Buble and Dolly Parton, "Cuddle Up, Cozy Down Christmas"
[Also of note: 11th Birthday Weekend coming up, with listener countdown of festive and popular songs!]
Billy Joel, "You're My Home"
Trout Fishing in America, "Home"
Pete Seeger, "From Way Up Here"
Going out on Kay Gardner, "My Mother's Garden"
#StaySafe and #BlessedBe !