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…
Capital Radio 5-8-23: Kings and All That
Began with the work of Gordon Lightfoot, the ace Canadian singer-songwriter who died a week ago at 84. We first hear his songs as interpreted by no less than Bob…
Capital Radio, 5-1-23: May Day, Maybe Not
Started with a tribute to the singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died last week at 96. Then it was all about the first of the merry month of May,…
Capital Radio 4-24-22: RSD Returns
Culled from the long roster of new vinyl released on Saturday’s Record Store Day to sample more than a dozen offerings to start the show, from Tom Tom Club to…
Capital Radio 4-17-23: Into the Registry
Started with some Ahmad Jamal, who died Sunday at 92 before some songs about Tax Day, Patriots Day and Emancipation Day Played about half of the tunes recently chosen for…
Capital Radio, 4-10: Easter Monday Eggs
Fresh as a pack of leftover peeps, we’ve got some Easter-themed songs of Jesus, resurrection and rolling away the stone on today’s Capital Radio, on the day of the White…