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HINT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT’S SHOW (10.15.11)

12 Oct

Last week’s show was a repeat from the archives, but Turntable For One will be live again this week.  The theme?   The same one I dreamed about last Wednesday before I got sick.  (Check out the blog post for Oct.  5.)

I must be on the mend because I’ve started having those dreams again.

In the latest one I’m walking down a gloomy and narrow alleyway, pushing a rusty, old shopping cart. (Note to self: next time you’re sick, take a more dream-friendly cold medicine with happier images.)

I pass a signpost that reads, “Tin Pan Alley,” so I eagerly push my cart into the nearest storefront, one with an awning that says, “The Gershwin Brothers.” 

“George, Ira, help me,” I say to the two men behind the counter. “I need songs for Saturday night.”

“Songs??” says George, looking confused. “We don’t sell songs.”

“Didn’t you see the street sign?” says Ira. “We sell tin pans.”

“Looks like you’re out of luck this week,” says George, offering me a shiny skillet.

Am I out of luck? Tune in Saturday night at 10:00 to find out. Live radio on WMNR, Fine Arts Radio, and wmnr.org

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HINT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME

5 Oct

I had a bad dream the other night.

I dreamed I was in the WMNR Music Library of The Great American Songbook. I was standing in the “Songs No One Should Ever Sing” aisle, which was one aisle over from “Singers with Undeserved Reputations” (you can tell I’m dreaming because the music is arranged by my opinions, not by alphabet), when the Fine Arts Radio music librarian (played by Billie Burke, of course) appeared in front of me. In fact she blocked my way.

“You can’t use any of this music,” she insisted.

“Why not?” I asked, becoming more exercised. (But isn’t that what my doctor has been advising me to do?)

“Your poetic license has expired,” she said. “You can’t use any of this music for your program.”

“But if I can’t use any of the Great American Songbook, what am I going to play for an hour?” I asked.

Find out how the dream ended this Saturday night at 10:00 PM. Live radio on WMNR-FM, wmnr.org

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HINT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME

28 Sep

What do Mark Sanford, Charles VanDoren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emma Bovary, Tiger Woods, Leann Rimes, Hester Prynne, Mark McGuire, and Bernie Madoff have in common — besides the fact that not one of them will be singing on Turntable For One this week? Tune in Saturday night at 10:00 to find out. Live radio on WMNR-FM, wmnr.org

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HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME

21 Sep

What you’ll need for this week’s Turntable For One:

  • wide-brimmed hat
  • sunglasses
  • discerning ears (1 pair at least)
  • a magnetic compass
  • a moral compass (never leave home without one)
  • 1 vial potassium permanganate  (Or should that be vile??)
  • 1 signal mirror
  • 1 tea bag
  • 3 Band-Aids
  • Photo of the kids
  • MRE’s
  • LOL’s (although I hope to provide you with these)
All of these survival preparations to listen to a radio show?  I’ll explain Saturday night at 10:00 on WMNR-FM and wmnr.org

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HINT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME

15 Sep

Sure, he’s old, but he’s still in the game, playing by his own rules and swinging for the fences.  (No, not Hugh Hefner, for heaven’s sake.) Turntable For One celebrates a poet’s birthday this Saturday night. Who is it? Tune in at 10:00 to find out.  

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ANTICIPATION

3 Sep

Turntable For One’s summer hiatus, or as I call it, “My long national nightmare,” finally ends tonight at 10:00 PM on WMNR and wmnr.org.

What’s the theme for this first show?  Here’s a hint: what do these statements have in common?   1) If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.  2) How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?  3) If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?

Tune in tonight at 10:00 for the answer.  Afterwards I’ll be posting the show’s music playlist in case you want to know what CD to buy or music to download.

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