Capital Radio, 7-17-23: Songs for Actors
Songs about actors and actors singing songs dominated Capital Radio this week, in support of the actors union joining the writers strike. That meant Montgomery Clift, Clint Eastwood, Robert De…
Friday Morning Rock, 7-14-23: Bastille Day
Bastille Day provides a reason to return for a pop-up show to fill the Allison Transmission slot— hardly enough time for all those French language pop songs — from the…
Capital Radio, 7-10-23: Birthdays & Beyond
Started with seven songs about the seventh month then a couple of long sets dedicated to the going out of business activity of a certain department store chain with a…
Friday Morning Rock, 7-7-23: Ringo’s Day
Had a blast filling in this morning for Rick Allison, out this month for medical upgrades. It gave an opportunity to revive my old Friday Morning Rock vibe from the…
Capital Radio 7-2-23: Arkin, Almost the 4th
Almost Independence Day, so we played many of the usual selections for the Fourth of July, as well as celebrating so many facets of the U.S.A. — Parties! Dancing! Surfing!…
Capital Radio 6-26-23: Summertime Rain
You don’t need 32 songs to tell you it’s summer — the near 90 degree weather has already left no doubt. Such extremes also lead to thunderstorms, so there was…
Capital Radio 6-19: Marvin on Juneteenth
Juneteenth is America’s newest federal holiday and we celebrated it for most of the show with songs of uplift struggle and empowerment, with a lot of contributions from the Staple…
Capital Radio 6-12: Astrud in the Smoke
Started with a salute to the peerless vocals of Astrud Gilberto, who introduced much of the world to the Bossa Nova and died a week ago at the age of…
Capital Radio 6-5-23: Cynthia Weil Salute
The bulk of the show is given over to Cynthia Weil, who died Thursday at 82. With her husband Barry Mann, the Brill Building songsmiths gave us “On Broadway” and…
Capital Radio, Memorial Day and Tina
How to encapsulate all that was Tina Turner? Her death last week at 83 left us with a wealth of music over a number of decades, rising in the abusive…