A very big THANK YOU to all those who donated to Heavy Friends and/or to CKCU, your favourite station, during our recently concluded funding drive. And, a very big Happy Birthday to CKCU!!!
| Heavy, Heavy, Heavy Geraldo Pino and the Heartbeats - Afro Rock - Strut 01996 |
| Put Some Sugar in my Cup , Please Nadja - The Life and Death of a Wasp - Broken Spine 02010 
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| I am Not Your Sugar Mahogany Frog - Do5 - Moonjune 02008
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| A few Canadian tunes about sugar, in tribute to Canadian Sir Fredrick Banting, born on this date in 1891. And now a track in honour of the first BBC transmission in 1925, and of this station, in 1975 on this date. |
| Comme la Radio Brigitte Fontaine and AEC - Comme la Radio - Superior Viaduct (orig 01969) |
| Sugar Town Nancy Sinatra - Sugar - Reprise (01966) |
| and a track from Brigitte Fontaine, to mark anniversaries of first broadcasts by BBC (1925) and CKCU!!! (1975) |
| Like Sugar in the Tea Omar Suleyman - Jazeera Nights - Sublime Frequencies (02014) |
| Sugar on Top The Dirtbombs - Ooey Gooey Chewy Kablooey - In the Red (02013) |
| A few long tracks to mark the 'discovery' of the source of a long river; the Blue Nile; on November 14, 1770. |
| Song of the Nile Arbouretum - The Gathering - Thrill Jockey 02011 |
| West Nile Curiosity The Band Whose Name is a Symbol - Versus the Purveyors of Conspicuous Consumption - Birdman 02010
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| Black Nile Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer - Blue Note 01964 |
| and in tribute to Wendy Carlos, born on this date in 1939, a few of her unique-scale-based compositions. |
| Incantation>Beauty in the Beast Wendy Carlos - Beauty in the Beast - BMI 01986 |
| Titan Wendy Carlos - Digital Moonscapes - BMI 01984 |
| and in celebration of another Canadian, this one a rower born in 1964, a few more Canadian tunes.... |
| Dubai, Bye Baby, Dubai Silkken Laumann - Not Forever Enough - self-released, 02014
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| Not Forever Enough Silkken Laumann - Not Forever Enough - elf-released, 02014
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| and a few more tracks in tribute to RADIO! |
| Transmission Joy Division - Amsterdam - Factory 01980 |
| Radio Sweetheart Elvis Costello - Taking Liberties - Columbia 01977 |
| Around the Dial The Kinks - Give the People What they Want - Arista (01981) |
| Ay Carmela > El Tren Blendido The Ex - 1936 The Spanish Revolution - Exmusic |
| Jeux Dites Narciso Yepes - Gentilhomme Espagnol |
| Concierto de Aranjuez Narcoso Yepes - 50 Essential Classical Pieces |
| Zhini Zhini Pushkar Lele - Chaitali - Dreams Entertainment 02009 |
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Geez, always nice to hear Narciso Yepes!
1:37 AM, November 17th, 2015