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 |
Edmund Fitzgerald Rheostatic - Double LIve - DROG 01997 |
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 |