HINT:
Do you have your Oscar acceptance speech ready? So did the songs I’m playing. Better luck next year!
Turntable For One Saturday Night 10:00 PM
Jazz Vocals and Live Radio WMNR Fine Arts Radio and wmnr.org
PLAYLIST FOR “UN-ROMANTIC LOVE SONGS” (2.16.13)
16 FebThe Valentine flowers are wilted, the Valentine candy eaten, the Valentine cards tossed in the recycle bin, right? Sounds to me like the perfect backdrop for an hour of the strangest love songs ever written! Turntable For One’s Post-Valentine’s Day Un-Romantic Musical Extravaganza.
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD or Album Title
- VALENTINE’S DAY James Taylor / “Never Die Young”
- DOWN WITH LOVE / Marie Bergman / “Fruit”
- A FINE ROMANCE / Frank Sinatra / “Ring-A-Ding Ding”
- IF HE WERE STRAIGHT AND I WERE YOUNG / Nancy Stearns / “A Wish”
- I WISH I DIDN’T LOVE YOU SO / Steven Pasquale / “Somethin’ Like Love”
- PAY SOME ATTENTION TO ME / Lena Jansson/Nils Lindbourg Combo / “That Certain Feeling”
- KEEP YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL / Emmy Rossum / “Sentimental Journey”
- SILLY HABITS / (Mystery Vocalist) / Mel Torme/Janis Ian / “At Marty’s”
- LOVE FOR SALE / Typhanie Monique/Neal Alger / “Intrinsic”
- I DON’T KNOW WHY (I JUST DO) / Joe Williams & Harry “Sweets” Edison / “Together”
- DID WE HAVE ANY FUN? / Shepley Metcalf / “Something Irresistible”
- AND SO IT GOES / Laila Biali / “Tracing Light”
- MY FUNNY VALENTINE / Michel Legrand / “At Shelly’s Manne-Hole”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine / (Unreleased Master Recording)
HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME ((2.16.13)
12 FebWell, let’s try this again, maybe this time with a lot less snow. Live radio will be back this Saturday night.
HINT:
What do these things have in common? Romantic Love Songs, Valentine’s Day, Turntable For One? This week? Absolutely nothing!
Tune in Saturday night for an unusual Post-Valentine’s Day Music Special!
Turntable For One Saturday Night 10:00 PM
Jazz Vocals and Live Radio WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org
SNOW JOKE REDUX
8 FebDid you like this week’s hint? Great! How’d you like another week to guess what the hint means? Double Great! I’ve got to put off that show for a week.We can all thank Winter Storm Nemo for this. I may never watch Finding Nemo ever again after this. And I may have to stop using the word mnemonic, too, although, in truth, I don’t often use that word anyway.
This Saturday tune in for a classic show from the Turntable For One archives.
Turntable For One Saturday Night 10:00 PM
(Not so) Live Radio (this week) and Jazz Vocals
WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org
HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (2.9.13)
5 FebHINT:
What do these things have in common? Romantic Love Songs, Valentine’s Day, Turntable For One? This week? Absolutely nothing!
Tune in Saturday night for a very unusual Valentine’s Day Special!
Turntable For One Saturday Night 10:00 PM
Jazz Vocals and Live Radio WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org
PLAYLIST FOR “WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?” (2.2.13)
2 FebAs someone once famously said, “It’s a terrible thing to lose your mind.” Takes one to know one. Hope you enjoyed tonight’s mind games.
Talk to you next week.
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD or Album Title
- GEORGIA ON MY MIND / Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis / “Two Men With The Blues”
- IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND / Helen Merrill / “Live At Nalen”
- SWEET KENTUCKY HAM / Dave Frishberg / “Classics”
- TROUBLE IN MIND / Nina Simone / “Nina At Newport”
- THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND / Sting / “The Thomas Crown Affair”
- YOU GO TO MY HEAD / Morgana King / “Tender Moments”
- GENTLE ON MY MIND / (Mystery Vocalist) / Leonard Nimoy / “Spaced Out”
- YOUR MIND’S ON VACATION / Kitty Margolis / “Body And Soul”
- DEEP WITHIN THE CORNERS OF MY MIND / Melody Gardot / “My One And Only Thrill”
- ONE FOR MY BABY / Frank Sinatra / “Only The Lonely”
- ROUND MIDNIGHT / Ella Fitzgerald / “Twelve Nights In Hollywood”
- NEW YORK STATE OF MIND / Tony Bennett/Billy Joel / “Playin’ With My Friends”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine / (Unreleased Master)
HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (2.2.13)
31 JanHINT:
Something on your mind you’d like to get off your chest?
I can work with that. And by the way: mix cocktails, not metaphors, okay?
Turntable For One Saturday Night 10:00 PM
Jazz Vocals and Live Radio WMNR Fine Arts Radio and wmnr.org
HINT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (1.26.13)
23 JanWell if I can get over this bug and if the impending snow doesn’t bury us, I’ll be on the air twice on Saturday, Jan. 26th.
Broadway Bound 4:00 – 6:00 PM –
Host Garrett Stack is taking a week off and asked if I would sit in for him. Do I want to do a show when people are still awake? You bet! So join me for two hours of the best of Broadway, which in my mind means not one note by Andrew Lloyd Webber!
And stay up for Turntable For One 10:00 – 11:00 PM –
HINT:
Broadway singers singing jazz, or jazz singers singing Broadway – which team do you think will win? And could this challenge possibly signal a long-awaited re-birth of donkey basketball?
Tune in Saturday to find out!
Broadway Bound and Turntable For One
Live Radio on WMNR Fine Arts Radio and wmnr.org
Saturday 9:00 pm (E. D. T.) WMNR-FM, wmnr.org
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