How’s this for a hint? The theme is “Music We’re Thankful For.” I announced that weeks ago, so you don’t have to guess this week. Aren’t you thankful for that already?
Tune in to hear my choices, plus music other broadcasters at the station and listeners are thankful for, too.
Turntable For One. Saturday night at 10:00. Live radio on WMNR and wmnr.org
As a public service, this week’s show focussed a penetrating light on a serious, while completely fabricated problem: the number of songs about the Distracted, the Deluded, or the Distraught. And I categorically deny those rumors that the program was funded by an underwriting grant from the manufacturer of Ritalin.
Next Saturday, the annual Thanksgiving show. Talk to you next week.
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We all know the three B’s — Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered. Well, this week I’m playing songs of the three D’s.
To make it easier, the following are all incorrect guesses: Diastolic, Distemper, Diaspora, Diminutive, Dissolute, Decadent, Diaphanous, Dips.
Hope that helps. Keep at it. You’ve got till Saturday night at 10:00 to figure it out.
By the way…I’ll be sitting in for Will Duchon this Friday night at 10:00 on Will’s show, “The Night Cafe.” Same great music, new questionable guest host. Check out the show’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friday-Evening-ClassicsThe-Night-Cafe-with-Will-Duchon/282954118397857
Live radio on WMNR-FM and wmnr.org
This week’s show was designed to help you hone your skills should you ever be asked to serve in the court of public opinion.
BTW: Have you ever seen embedded video ads in my blog posts? Totally the blog host’s fault, but I’ve taken care of it. Have you ever seen shimmering images of Francis the Talking Mule in my blog posts? Totally not my fault. You need to adjust your dosage. Talk to you next week.
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Hint:
What do these couples have in common? Othello and Desdemona, Hedda and Jergen, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown, J-Lo and Marc? And is it really possible to come up with a new and exciting musical game about this stuff that you can play at home? Tune in Saturday night at 10:00 to find out.
It’s been a rough week, and even I thought an hour of optimism was in order. Maybe that was the hour we gained with “Fall Behind.” And so, does that mean now it’s back to business as usual? Tune in next week to find out.
Here’s last night’s music list.
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HINT:
Saturday’s live show will take a lesson and its theme from a boy who is more often than not a girl.
But before you assume the obvious, just how many transgender songs can you think of to fill an hour? Me, too. So that’s clearly not the answer.
More important, perhaps, is the fact that the above hint will only apply to this Saturday’s live show IF there is a live show. Last week’s snow storm knocked out most of WMNR’s Eastern Shore transmitters and its internet streaming. Oh, and more than half of the state of Connecticut, too. So it’s possible the station won’t be all the way back by Saturday; possible, too, that nearly no one will be listening.
How is that different from every other week?
Hope I beat you to that joke…
As long as you’re here, why not click on “Thanksgiving Show” (in the upper right-hand corner) and help me put together the November 26th, “Music To Be Thankful” show?
Talk to you this Saturday, I hope.
Last night’s show was a repeat, last year’s Halloween show, because Mother Nature decided to play a major Halloween trick on everyone in the Northeast and I couldn’t get to the station. So you get a pass for not listening if your power was out; but that excuse won’t fly this weekend. (I know you’ll be resourceful.) Below is the playlist from the archive program that played.
Oh by the way, while you’re here, see the words, Thanksgiving Show, near the right-hand corner? Click on those words and see if you want to suggest some music for my annual Thanksgiving “Music to Be Thankful For” show, coming up on November 26th. Just a thought…
I’ll have news about this Saturday’s show on Wednesday. Stop back then or stay there, staring at your computer, if you prefer to fixate on a task.
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Sorry, but this week’s Halloween show has been called on account of snow — yes, snow…in October!
So it turns out that Mother Nature is even more sinister than the artists I was planning to feature.
Look for news about next week’s show here on Wednesday.
I hope you’re ready this week for the annual Turntable For One Halloween program — so, why do you need a hint to figure out the theme? Because, of course, it’s not that simple nor straight-forward.
HINT:
All of Saturday’s featured Halloween artists are totally and entirely sinister.
So, now in the time left before Saturday, you’ll be left to your own devices to figure it out. Don’t be left in the lurch, nor left at the starting gate, because then you’ll definitely be left out in the cold.
If you think you know the answer, leave me a comment below.
Or, listen for the answer on Turntable For One, Saturday at 10:00 pm. Live radio on WMNR, Fine Arts Radio, and wmnr.org
And by the way…if anyone shows up Saturday night wearing the same costume I’m wearing, I’m going to be very upset.
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