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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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East Orange, NJ

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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@WFMU

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English

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WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011 201-200-9368


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Pretend You Love Me from Apr 27, 2026

4/27/2026
Anita O'Day - "Honeysuckle Rose" - Four Classic Albums [from "Anita," 1956] [0:00:00] Mel Tormé - "Just in Time" - Mel Tormé Swings Schubert Alley [0:05:19] Nat "King" Cole and His Trio - "It's Only a Paper Moon" - After Midnight [0:08:49] Johnny Mathis - "In the Still of the Night" - Open Fire, Two Guitars [0:11:49] Tony Perkins - "Accidents Will Happen" - Tony Perkins [0:14:19] Chris Connor - "Spring Is Here" - Chris Connor Sings Lullabys of Birdland [0:16:50] Doris Day - "I'll Never Stop Loving You" - Golden Girl: The Columbia Recordings 1944-1966 [From 1955] [0:19:40] Ethel Ennis - "Then I'll Be Tired of You" - Have You Forgotten? [0:21:37] Buddy Greco - "Will You Still Be Mine" - Talkin' Verve [From "Buddy Greco at Mr. Kelly's," 1955] [0:25:12] Rosemary Clooney with the Buddy Cole Trio - "Blue Moon" - Swing Around Rosie [0:27:30] Dinah Washington - "I've Got You Under My Skin" - Evil Gal: The Imperious Dinah Washington [live in L.A., 8/14/54] [0:29:56] Brady Only - "If I Die First" - A Dream, A Dog [0:45:03] True Green - "Terry's Parrot" - Half Disaster [0:48:48] Lois - "The Way I Feel Inside" - Strumpet [0:52:33] From 2 - "Ernie Song" - Indie Stock [0:54:03] Shabason, Krygovich, Tenniscoats - "Lose My Breath" - Wao [0:58:06] Tara Clerkin Trio - "Somewhere Good" - Somewhere Good [1:02:13] Broadcast - "Echo's Answer" - The Noise Made by People [1:08:10] Bill Wells feat. Norman Blake - "El, El, El" - Dreams '24/'25 [1:11:18] Ofir Gannon - "Regent" - Same Air [1:12:38] Delphine Dora - "L'Éternité" - La Lune [1:14:28] Anadol and Marie Klock - "Magnitude 6.3" - Manivelles [1:16:50] Feist - "Let It Die" - Let It Die [1:21:14] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour P.K. Limited - "Feelings" - single [Thanks to Triple G!] [1:32:37] Roy Orbison - "Blue Rain (Coming Down)" - single [1:34:23] Angelica Maria - "Tu Sigues Siendo el Mismo" - single [1:37:36] Johnny Clarke - "Woman a Cry" - single [1:41:28] Marvin Rainwater & Sister Patty - "Wedding Rings" - single [1:44:33] Sons of Robin Stone - "Let's Do It Now" - single [1:47:22] The Coconuts - "He's Not Such a Bad Guy (After All)" - single [1:50:30] Johnny Rivers - "Gettin' Ready for Tomorrow" - single [1:54:16] Rupert Holmes - "Him" - single [Double thanks to Triple G!] [1:56:52] Loudon Wainwright III - "Say That You Love Me" - Album III [2:11:02] Sonny and the Sunsets - "Pretend You Love Me" - Longtime Companion [2:13:00] Marika Che - "Been Alone" - Bright Flame [2:18:26] Cut Woms - "Barfly" - Transmitter [2:21:33] Mapache - "Encinal Canyon" - Swinging Stars [2:24:51] Cole Berliner - "The Black Door" - The Black Door [2:28:13] Robert Lester Folsom - "This Blue Eyed Boy" - If You Wanna Laugh, You Gotta Cry Sometimes: Archives Vol. 3, 1972–1975 [2:32:42] Cathy Hamer - "I'm Missing You" - Lady Full of Dreams ['79-'80] [2:35:07] Blood Sucking Maniacs - "Bloodlines" - Blood Sucking Maniacs [2:38:18] Orcutt Shelley Miller - "A Man Needs a Maid" - single [2:43:16] Linda Ronstadt - "Love Is a Rose" - Prisoner in Disguise [2:47:39] Warren Zevon - "Desperados Under the Eaves" - Warren Zevon [2:50:28] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163658

Duration:03:08:31

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Episode from Apr 20, 2026

4/20/2026
Set: Saluting Máire Philomena Ní Bhraonáin Clannad - "Morning Dew" - Clannad [Maire Brennan, 1952–2026] [0:02:07] Clannad - "Rince Briotánach" - Clannad 2 [From 1974; Maire on cruit; "British Dance"] [0:06:05] Clannad - "Mo Mhaire / An dTigeas a Damhsa" - No Album [live on German TV, 1978; "My Mary"/"Will You Come Dance"] [0:09:35] Clannad - "Siúil a Rúin" - Dúlamán [From 1976; "Go, My Love"] [0:13:28] Clannad - "Ar a ghabhail 'n a 'chuain damh" - Crann Ull ["When I Went to the Harbor"] [0:19:12] Clannad - "Lish Young Buy-a-Broom" - Fuaim [0:22:43] Maire Brennan - "An Maighdean Mhara" - No Album ["The Mermaid," on Irish TV] [0:26:49] Maire Brennan - "Heroes" - Misty Eyed Adventures [0:29:34] David Watson and Bill Nace - "Walnuts" - On Bats [0:49:55] Baklava Express - "White Sauce Hot Sauce" - Baklava Express [check out their live set on Rob's show] [0:53:17] Shay Hazan - "Slowly" - When It Rains It Pours [0:57:48] Sanam - "Harik" - Sametou Sawtan [1:01:28] Flore Laurentienne - "Régate" - Volume III [1:06:32] Scott Walker - "We're Alone" - Live on Air 1968-1969 [from March 18, 1969 show] [1:11:17] The Joachim Kühn Group - "Depression and Illusion" - Spiritual Jazz 17: SABA / MPS [From 1969] [1:15:20] Ingrid - "A Dream" - No One's Listening Anyway Volume 2 [From 1982] [1:18:45] Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "Sun Is Shining" - Mambo Nassau [From 1981] [1:22:48] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Moe Koffman - "Swingin' Shepherd Blues Twist" - single [1:31:29] Sisters Love - "Ring Once" - single [1:32:18] Lois Williams - "A Girl Named Sam" - single [1:34:59] Elvis Costello & the Attractions - "Psycho" - single [1:37:10] Little River Band - "Help Is On Its Way" - single [1:40:43] Ladies Who Lunch - "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" - single [1:44:45] Dion and the Belmonts - "I Can't Go On (Rosalie)" - single [1:50:19] Hosanna - "Hipit - Part 2" - single [1:53:03] Set: A Visit from Matt Werth of Freedom to Spend / RVNG Intl. Interview with Matt Werth #1 [2:07:59] Sister Irene O'Connor - "Fire (Luke 12:49)" - Fire of God's Love [From 1973] [2:09:14] Interview with Matt Werth #2 [2:12:36] Sister Irene O'Connor - "Keshukoran" - Fire of God's Love [2:19:32] The Singers of David & Sister Irene O'Connor, F.M.M. - "Our Father" - Sing for Joy - Songs, Narratives and Music to Accompany "Joy for Living" [2:21:29] Sister Irene O'Connor - "Author of Beauty" - Sing a Song to the Lord [2:22:39] Sister Irene O'Connor - "Getting to Know You" - Sing for Joy - Songs, Narratives and Music to Accompany "Joy for Living" [2:25:20] Interview with Matt Werth #3 [2:28:18] Larrison - "Swarm" - Connectors Vol. 1: Original Recordings 1992–1999 [2:34:10] Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - "Heron Dance" - Music and Poetry of the Kesh [From 1982] [2:36:53] Larrison - "Fancy Free" - Connectors Vol. 1: Original Recordings 1992–1999 [2:40:58] Interview with Matt Werth #4 [2:43:46] Ernest Hood - "Bedroom of the Absent Child" - Back to the Woodlands [2:52:41] Interview with Matt Werth #5 [2:55:02] Peter Ivers - "Eighteen and Dreaming" - Becoming Peter Ivers [2:57:10] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163420

Duration:03:08:23

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Episode from Apr 13, 2026

4/13/2026
Fabiano do Nascimento and Vittor Santos Orchestra - "O Tempo (Foi O Meu Mestre)" - Vila ["Time (Was My Master)"] [0:00:00] Silvia Tarozzi - "Distratta" - Lucciole ["Distracted"] [0:07:07] The Notwist - "Red Sun" - News from Planet Zombie [0:10:05] Chris Knox - "Gold" - YES!! [0:14:14] Beth Orton - "I Love How You Love Me" - Trailer Park - Legacy Edition [From 1997] [0:15:21] Ora Cogan - "Love You Better" - Hard Hearted Woman [0:17:58] Limp Hobel - "Pretty Little Horses" - Sometimes EP [0:20:58] Friends of Dean Martinez - "All the Pretty Horses" - The Shadow of Your Smile [0:23:11] Gruff Rhys - "Ni Yw Y Byd" - Yr Atal Genhedlaeth ["We Are the World"] [0:25:50] Season 2 - "Tugging at the Cable" - Power of Now [0:29:44] Set: A Brief Tribute to One of the World's Most Recorded Voices, the Great Asha Bhosle (R.I.P.) Asha Bhosle with Rabul Dev Berman - "Piya Tu Ab To Aaja" - The Golden Collection [From "Caravan," 1971; "My Beloved Come to Me Now"] [0:43:57] Asha Bhosle with Kishore Kumar - "Bum Pam Bum Pam Pa Ra Ra" - Bombay Connection, Vol. 2: Bombshell Baby of Bombay [From "Hamara Adhikar," 1971] [0:48:02] Asha Bhosle - "Bhanwara Bada Nadan" - The Golden Collection [From "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam," 1962; "The Bumblebee Is Very Foolish"] [0:53:04] Asha Bhosle - "Karle Pyar Karle" - The Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends: Asha Bhosle [From "Talash," 1969; "Go Ahead, Fall in Love"] [0:57:47] Asha Bhosle - "Aaj Ki Raat" - The Rough Guide to the Music of India [From "Anamika," 1973; "Tonight"] [1:03:18] Asha Bhosle - "Koi Aaya Aane Bhi De" - Together: Mohd. Rafi & Asha Bhosle [From "Kaala Sona," 1975; "If Someone Comes, Let Them Come"] [1:09:21] Asha Bhosle - "Pass Aao Na" - Bombay Disco 2 [From "Sumbandh," 1982; "Come Closer"] [1:15:02] Asha Bhosle - "Rafta Rafta" - Love Supreme [1:21:00] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour Cornershop - "Brimful of Asha" - single [1:32:56] The Jewells - "Lookie Lookie Lookie" - single [1:37:34] The Regents - "Barbara-Ann" - single [1:39:26] McGuinness Flint - "Rock On" - single [1:41:39] Mayf Nutter - "I Don't Care" - single [1:44:15] Lily Fields - "Burning My Bridges" - single [1:46:28] Jeff Beck - "Hi-Ho Silver Lining" - single [1:50:37] Blues Brothers - "Hey Bartender" - single [1:53:23] Set: Dollysongs Parlor Greens - "Jolene" - Emeralds [2:07:56] Candi Staton - "Jolene" - Evidence: The Complete Fame Records Masters [From 1974] [2:10:38] Margie Joseph - "Touch Your Woman" - Margie Joseph [From 1973] [2:14:50] Tina Turner - "There'll Always Be Music" - Tina Turns the Country On! [2:17:58] Maria Muldaur - "My Tennessee Mountain Home" - Maria Muldaur [From 1973] [2:22:30] Ray Corbin - "Life Doesn't Move Me" - single [2:25:40] Conway Twitty - "The Last One to Touch Me" - How Much More Can She Stand (And Still Stand by Me) [2:28:16] Skeeter Davis - "Just the Way I Am" - Skeeter Sings Dolly [2:31:13] Porter Wagoner - "Malinda" - Simple As I Am [2:34:03] Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - "Down from Dover" - single [2:36:59] Sinead O'Connor - "Dagger Through the Heart" - Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton [2:41:29] Joan Shelley - "The Bridge" - Rivers & Vessels EP [2:44:52] Emmylou Harris - "To Daddy" - single [2:47:09] Norma Jean - "Coat of Many Colors" - I Guess That Comes From Being Poor [From 1972] [2:49:40] The Country Gentlemen - "God's Coloring Book" - The Sugar Hill Collection [From 1980] [2:52:41] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163167

Duration:03:08:30

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Eye of Spring from Apr 6, 2026

4/6/2026
David Munrow - "Suite of Renaissance Dances" - The Mediaeval Sound [includes: Ungarescha, La Bouree, Basse Danse, Ronde "Mon Amy," Galliard "La rocha el fuso," and Ballets des Baccanales et Des Feus] [0:00:00] Gryphon - "Kemp's Jig" - Gryphon [From 1973] [0:12:19] John Renbourn - "Alman / Melancholy Galliard" - The Lady and the Unicorn [0:15:43] Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins - "Bonny Cuckoo" - Anthems in Eden [From 1969] [0:20:06] The Young Tradition - "The Agincourt Carol" - Galleries [0:22:06] Les Menestriers - "Gaillarde d'ecosse" - Vive Henri IV ["Scottish Dance"] [0:26:38] La Bamboche - "Montagnarde Bourbonnaise" - La Bamboche ["Woman from the Bourbonnais Mountains"] [0:28:29] The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos - "Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae" - Easter Chants ["Here Begins the Lamentation of Jeremiah the Prophet"] [0:30:01] Anonymous 4 - "Edi beo thu hevene quene" - An English Ladymass ["Blessed Be Thou Heavenly Queen"] [0:31:41] Ougenweide - "Ouwe" - Ougenweide ["Old"] [0:35:16] The Amazing Blondel - "Lady Marion's Galliard" - Evensong [0:37:46] Philip Pickett - "Le Forze d'Hercole / Lo Ballo dell'intorcia" - The Bones of All Men [with Richard Thompson; "Strength of Hercules"/ "The Dance of the Torch"] [0:41:27] Church Car - "(church of)" - (Church Of) [1:00:23] Spiritual Exit - "Nothing on the One" - Fragment [1:07:09] Spiritualized - "Born Never Asked / Electric Mainline" - Pure Phase [1:11:52] Don Cherry - "Brown Rice" - Brown Rice [1:21:00] Set: Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour The Champs - "Subway" - single [1:30:36] The Grass Roots - "No Exit" - single [1:32:49] East River Pipe - "My Life Is Wrong" - single [1:35:22] Dee Mullins - "There Lies the Difference" - single [1:38:42] Sharon Little - "Eddie My Love" - single [1:41:33] Hagood Hardy - "Quorum" - single [1:45:05] Wizz Jones with Formerly Fat Harry - "Easy Rider" - single [From 1969] [1:47:59] Donna Summer - "Love's Unkind" - single [1:52:01] Ian Hunter - "Once Bitten Twice Shy" - single [1:56:10] Fake Estates - "Last Days" - Last Days [2:14:59] Sonny Sharrock - "Devils Doll Baby" - Guitar [2:27:11] Gods and Monsters Feat. Jeff Buckley - "Farewell Angelina" - They Came, They Played, They Blocked the Driveway: Live Music from the Studios of WFMU [from Nicholas Hill's "Music Faucet," 11/10/91] [2:32:08] Nana Mouskouri - "Adieu Angelina" - Le Jour Où La Colombe... [2:39:50] Kim Jung Mi - "Spring" - Now [From 1973] [2:43:10] Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns - "The Rising Sun" - Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns [From 1974; instrumental version] [2:48:11] Gordon Broad - "Eye of Spring" - Broad Way [From 1970] [2:52:28] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162925

Duration:03:08:32