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Heavy Friends
Saturday November 10th, 2012 with Lady Mary
Big Big Bird!!!

C is for CKCU
Heavy Heavy Heavy
Geraldo Pino and the Heartbeats - Afro Rock - Kona 02009
Sesame Street Theme
Sesame Street Kids - Sesame Street Platinum - Sony 01995
Yellow Bird
Ventures - Walk Don't Run - Dalton 01960
Yellow Bird
Mills Brothers - Anthology 1931-1968 - Stardust 01995
Surfin Bird
Ramones - Rocket to Russia - Sire 01977
You Bring out the Boogie
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee - Sonny & Terry - A&M 01973
Welcome to our first post-funding drive, post-US election, where we celebrate the ongoing employment of Big Bird and the 1969 debut of Sesame Street, and all things yellow, birdy, and cookie...
C is for Cookie
Cookie Monster - Sesame Street Platinum - Sony 01995
Sesame Street
Sly & Robbie - Sly and Robbie and the Taxi Gang - Sonic Sounds 01991
And now turning from the good things brought to you by the letter 'C' (including CKCU) to birdday boy, Screaming Lord Sutch
Gutty Guitar
Screaming Lord Sutch - Heavy Friends - Atlantic 01970
Hog for you Baby
Screaming Lord Sutch - Jack the Ripper - Atlantic 01976
Would you Believe
Screaming Lord Sutch - Heavy Friends - Atlantic 01970
Smoke and Fire
Screaming Lord Sutch - Heavy Friends - Atlantic 01970
Turning from Screaming Englishmen to Inventing Germans, we now consider the discovery on this date of the XRay by William Roentgen with a set of music with Xrays and skeletons in mind
Turning Japanese
Vapors - New Clear Days - United Artists 01980
Skeletons
Stevie Wonder - Characters - Motown 01987
XRay Style
Joe Strummer - Rock Art & the X-Ray Style - Hellcat 01999
Man with the XRay Eyes
Bauhaus - Mask - Beggar's Banquet 01981
X Ray Man
Liz Phair - Whip Smart - Matador 01994
And now for a sad anniversary, of the bookburning of Slaughterhouse Five in North Dakota on this date in 1973. A few tracks dedicated to Kurt Vonnegut, writer, English professor, Purple Heart recipient, and genius.
Ice-9
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien - Relativity 01987
Ready for the Monkeyhouse
Waterboys - The Waterboys - Island 01983
Happy Birthday Wanda June
Strange Boutique - Charm - Bedazzled 01993
Breakfast of Champions
Rainer Maria - Look Now Again - Polyvinyl 01999
Mother Night
Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors - Luna - Raven 01994
Also on this date - the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, November 10, 1975. It has only three chords and ten thousand verses long, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Edmund Fitzgerald
Nash the Slash - In a Gadda da Nash - 2008 Canadian
Edmund Fitzgerald
Rheostatic - Double LIve - DROG 01997 Canadian
and now just a few songs of gratitude from me, Lady Mary, to all the Heavy Friends, volunteers, funding drive contributors, and to you, the Heavy Listeners
Talking to the Sun
Steve Hillage - Live Herald - Virgin 01979
The Creator has a Master Plan
Pharaoh Sanders - Karma - Impulse! 01969