Full Duplex Radio

You won't find a lot of 60s music in this program but we still think you'll like it.  We have songs by Noël and Cole, Bix from 1927, a block of show tunes, a little dose of "indie" (whatever that means), we have some fun at Ringo's expense, and we even slip in a couple of bona fide hits. ("Thank you very much.")  And we end with the theme to a TV show of which we've both seen every episode, which makes us feel accomplished indeed.

We aim to please.  No, really, we do.  Help us spread the pleasure.

1. Peter Greenwell — Mrs. Worthington
2. Ella Fitzgerald — Just One of Those Things
3. Noël Coward — Mad Dogs and Englishmen
4. Bix Beiderbecke with Frankie Trumbauer's Orchestra — Ostrich Walk
5. Bongwater — Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
6. The Lumineers — Stubborn Love
7. Kate and Anna McGarrigle — Parlez-nous à boire (et non pas de mariage)
8. Blind Pilot — Miss Ohio
9. Original Cast Orchestra — Overture to The Fantasticks
10. Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber — Chim Chim Cher-ee (from Mary Poppins)
11. Julie Andrews — I Feel Pretty (from West Side Story)
12. Cindy Bullens — Freddy, My Love (from Grease)
13. Mary Hopkin — Summertime, Summertime
14. Melanie — Brand New Key
15. Melanie — Love to Lose Again
16. Adele — Chasing Pavements (Live at The Hotel Cafe)
17. The Evolution Control Committee — What Would You Think If I Sang AutoTune
18. Jay-Z and Kanye West — HAM
19. TV Theme — Peyton Place

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Not even Mother's Day can stand in our way as we play some of our favorite British pop songs, some let's-call-them-comedy pieces, a couple of unusual cover tunes, an instrumental favorite, plus we got your hip-hop right here and one of our favorite TV game show themes.  And more. You don't need to be a mother to enjoy it. Which we hope you will do.

We know that you have many chatty father-daughter eclectic music podcasts available to you and we thank you for choosing Full Duplex Radio.

1. Gerry and the Pacemakers – It's Gonna Be Alright (mono)
2. The Rolling Stones – Mother's Little Helper
3. Herman's Hermits – No Milk Today (stereo mix)
4. Small Faces – Itchychoo Park
5. Daddy Cool – Eagle Rock
6. Los Hombres – Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
7. Bessie Banks – Go Now
8. Nina Simone – Mr. Bojangles
9. Bert Kaempfert – Afrikaan Beat
10. Theophilus London – Girls Girls $
11. The Turtles – I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're the Royal Macadamia Nuts)
12. Black Star – Brown Skin Lady
13. Mike Nichols and Elaine May – Cocktail Piano
14. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton – Love Is Strange
15. The Rutles – Number One
16. The Beatles – Baby's in Black
17. Long John Baldry – Iko Iko
18. Pete Yorn – Just Another
19. Norman Paris – Theme to "I've Got a Secret" (Plink Plank Plunk)

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One of us (guess who!) says "May the fourth be with you" as we enter May with some bluesy sets old and new, Delta and otherwise. We have bluegrass, we have English and American hip-hop, we have cover tunes and tunes that others covered, we have crooners, we have 78 RPM records, and we have at least one "signature" tune.

We like it all and we hope that you will too.

1. Ray Bolger — Once in Love with Amy
2. Frank Sinatra — (Love Is) The Tender Trap
3. Etta James — The Pick-Up
4. Little Richard — Rip It Up
5. The 4 Deuces — W-P-L-J
6. Beastie Boys — B-Boys Makin' with the Freak Freak
7. Professor Elemental — Fighting Trousers
8. The Streets — Don't Mug Yourself
9. Martin Mull — Ukulele Blues
10. Muddy Waters — (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
11. John Mayall — Room to Move
12. Craig Ventresco — Scalding Hot Coffee Rag (from Ghost World)
13. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell — Who You Gonna Take?
14. Antony — Landslide
15. Teddy Thompson — The One I Can't Have
16. The Bird and the Bee — Rich Girl
17. The Youngbloods — Darkness, Darkness
18. The Guess Who — No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
19. Beastie Boys — The Math

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Again we deliver on our promise to you, our dozens of loyal listeners, to make it up as we go along. Our selections include a few hits but mostly they're all non-hits so we can't be accused of pandering.  Music from almost every decade since the 1940s.  We missed a couple of decades in there but we'll make that up in later shows. This time you can listen to some modern bluegrass, old folk, old funk, girl groups, crazy Indian dance music, singer-songwriters (whatever that means), and more.

It's not May yet but check back with us in a few days.

1. Sara Watkins — You and Me
2. Ingrid Michaelson — The Way I Am
3. Mary Hopkin — Goodbye
4. Joni Mitchell — Morning Morgantown
5. Josh White — One Meat Ball
6. Pete Seeger — Risselty, Rosselty
7. Kate and Anna McGarrigle — Perrine était servante
8. Simon and Garfunkel — April Come She Will
9. Dion — Sunshine Lady
10. Lupe Fiasco — Sunshine
11. Mohammed Rafi — Jaan Pehechaan Ho
12. Quincy Jones — Desafinado
13. The Pixies Three — 442 Glenwood Avenue
14. The Marvelettes — Beechwood 4-5789
15. Lesley Gore — Sometimes I Wish I Were a Boy
16. The Crystals — He's a Rebel
17. Long John Baldry — Everything Stops for Tea
18. Funkadelic — Back in Our Minds
19. The Mighty Accordion Band — April in Paris
20. The Band — Rockin' Chair
21. Barry Gray — Fireball XL5 Closing Theme (instrumental)

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This week's program features children singing adult music, happy music from a child-beater, John Denver cleaned up for radio, vocalists from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, show tunes and movie music, 21st-century singer-songwriters, acoustic sets, and more.

We're ready for the summer.  Are you?

1. The Mini-Pops — Video Killed the Radio Star
2. The Langley Schools Music Project — Help Me, Rhonda
3. PS22 Chorus — Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
4. The Richard Wolfe Children's Chorus — Windy
5. John Denver — Annie's Song (Clean Radio Edit)
6. Beastie Boys — Boomin' Granny
7. Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five — Beware
8. Dizzy Gillespie — Chelsea Bridge
9. Zeppo Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx — Everyone Says I Love You (from Horse Feathers)
10. Sophie Tucker — Makin' Wicky Wacky Down in Waikiki
11. The Brox Sisters — How Many Times?
12. Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra — Don't Fence Me In
13. Petra Haden — Psycho Main Title (from Psycho)
14. Julie Andrews — Wouldn't It Be Loverly (from My Fair Lady)
15. Ethel Merman and Chorus — I Got the Sun in the Morning (from Annie Get Your Gun)
16. Jay-Z — Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
17. ukedoug — Fireball XL-5 Closing Theme (played on a fluke ukulele)
18. Hanna-Barbera — Hong Kong Phooey (Main Title)
19. Jenny O. — Learned My Lessons (live)
20. Jenny Owen Youngs — Here Is a Heart
21. Patty Loveless — I'll Never Grow Tired of You
22. Aimee Mann and Michael Penn — Two of Us (from I Am Sam)
23. Camp North Star Kids Chorus — Are You Ready for the Summer? (from Meatballs)

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We edge deeper into spring with Disney music, contemporary and 25-year-old country, 60s hits and novelties, and music that even a child could love (and so do we).  We pay tribute to Annette, play a song that mentions crèpes suzette, visit the Tiki Room, take a walk in the subway, and much more.

It's music you've heard before plus music you've never heard before but will enjoy. That's what we think.

1. TVOntario — The Polka Dot Door: Intro (Imagination Day)
2. Patty Loveless — Timber I'm Falling in Love
3. Taylor Swift — Love Story
4. Miley Cyrus — The Best of Both Worlds
5. Toni Basil — Mickey
6. Sweetwater — Why Oh Why
7. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young — Almost Cut My Hair
8. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs — Second Hand News
9. Aloe Blacc — Make Me Smile
10. Annette — Hawaiianette (Hawaiian Love Talk)
11. Annette — Pineapple Princess
12. Annette with The Beach Boys — The Monkey's Uncle
13. Frankie Avalon, Shelley Fabares, Paul Anka, Tommy Sands — Annette
14. Shelley Fabares — Johnny Angel
15. The Diamonds — Little Darlin'
16. Linda Laurie — Ambrose (Part Five)
17. A Tribe Called Quest — Phony Rappers
18. Wally Boag, Thurl Ravenscroft, Fulton Burley, Ernie Newton — The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room
19. Sid Ramin and Bob Wells — The Patty Duke Show (Theme)
20. Pizzicato Five — Twiggy Twiggy (Twiggy vs. James Bond)
21. John Barry Orchestra — James Bond Theme (from Dr. No)
22. Danny Jacob — Ducky Momo

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We reveal ourselves to be predictable as we present another program filled with lady songs, the spoken word, the 1960s, cover tunes, and children's TV music.  Could software produce our playlists?  Perhaps, but it couldn't produce our lively banter.  Well, okay, maybe it could do that too, but it doesn't.  Nor would it be as much fun.

1. Brook Benton — Hit Record
2. Jay and The Techniques — Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
3. Badfinger — No Matter What
4. The Zombies — Care of Cell 44
5. Joy of Cooking — Did You Go Downtown?
6. Kim Carnes — Bette Davis Eyes (Acoustic Version)
7. Les Paul and Mary Ford — How High the Moon
8. The Puppini Sisters — Sway
9. Jad and David Fair — Henry Penny
10. Tom Waits — Diamonds on My Windshield
11. Bob & Ray — Insomniac Theater: The Desperate Man
12. Talib Kweli and Hi Tek — The Blast
13. Susanna Hoffs — Stuck in the Middle with You
14. Lake Street Dive — Rich Girl
15. Glen Campbell — Times Like These
16. The Postal Service — Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
17. Sam Phillips — These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
18. Cracker — Rainy Days and Mondays
19. PT Walkley — Team Umizoomi Opening and Closing Themes

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Our sets this week include numbers recorded before you were born by jazzy ladies with beautiful voices as well as more recent recordings by famous Brits most of whom are still alive.  We also have cover tunes, a Eurovision Song Contest winner, Bollywood soundtrack music, Hawaiian steel guitar, coconuts (some as big as your head), a song that's had six million views on YouTube, and a selection from what was at one time the best-selling album in history.  And we end with an instrumental by one of The Men from U.N.C.L.E. (though they weren't real uncles).

We're already plotting what comes next.  You will benefit from our plotting.

1. Ruth Etting — It All Depends on You
2. Peggy Lee — Them There Eyes
3. Dinah Shore — Blues in the Night
4. Billie Holiday — Sugar
5. Paul McCartney — Man We Was Lonely
6. Paul McCartney — Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
7. Herman's Hermits — A Must to Avoid
8. Peter and Gordon — A World Without Love
9. Joni Mitchell — Why Do Falls Fall in Love?
10. Kalyanji & Anandji Shah — The Great Gambler
11. Sal Hoopii's Quartet — Hula Girl
12. Danny Kaye — I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
13. Kate Bush — Rubberband Girl
14. Michael Jackson — P. Y. T. (Pretty Young Thing)
15. Lena Meyer-Landrut — Satellite
16. Mandy Moore — Umbrella
17. Katy Perry — Hackensack
18. The Thrills — Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)
19. David McCallum — The Edge

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It's nice that Spring is here but it has nothing to do with our choices this time which include soul, jazz in more than one flavor, TV music, movie music (some of it a cappella), Celtic harp, and one or two good old pop tunes.  We have a Wizard of Oz outtake, at least one show tune, and several duets, but no opera (this time).

We're having fun.  We hope it shows.

1. Petra Haden — The Planet Krypton/Main Title Theme (from Superman: The Movie)
2. Alexandre Desplat — The Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe, Part 2: Smoke/Fire (from Moonrise Kingdom)
3. Sileas — Beating Harps
4. Cab Calloway and His Orchestra — Jitter Bug
5. Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Buddy Ebsen, Bert Lahr — The Jitterbug (outtake) (from The Wizard of Oz)
6. Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (vocal: June Christy) — Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
7. Blossom Dearie — Surrey with the Fringe on Top
8. Bettye Swann — (My Heart Is) Closed for the Season
9. Rahsaan Roland Kirk — One Ton
10. The Bobbettes — Mr. Lee
11. Billy West — …I Hope He Stays in Germany…
12. Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret — You're the Boss (from Viva Las Vegas)
13. Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa (feat. Mike Posner) — French Inhale (from Mac and Devin Go to High School)
14. Eydie Gormé — Blame It on the Bossa Nova
15. Manu Chao — Welcome to Tijuana
16. Henry Mancini — It Had Better Be Tonight (instrumental) (from The Pink Panther)
17. Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox (vocal: Cyndi Grecco) — Theme to Laverne and Shirley (Making Our Dreams Come True)
18. Bongos, Bass, and Bob (vocal: Penn Jillette and Julie Brown) — Jackson
19. Alexander — Truth
20. Barry Gray (vocal: Don Spencer) — I Wish I Was a Spaceman (Fireball XL5 closing theme)

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We have a big bag of Assorted Varieties this time around. Mixed in with our usual well-loved pop tunes you'll find opera, classical, pipe organ, choral music, novelties, movie music, TV music, foreign languages (most of them French), and a couple of audience recordings including a wonderful live version of "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

It's also our longest episode to date. This is fun. Please raise your hands so we can count you—it's hard to tell how many of you are out there.

1. Milton Charles, the Singing Organist — Crying for the Carolines (from Spooney Melodies (1930))
2. Roy Ayers — We Live in Brooklyn, Baby
3. The Moody Blues — Floating
4. David Bowie — The Laughing Gnome
5. Epsom Chamber Choir — Ding Dong Merrily on High
6. Mady Mesplé and Danielle Millet — "Viens, Mallika" [The Flower Duet] (from Lakmé by Léo Delibes)
7. Emma Kirkby — Sheep may safely graze
8. The Books — That Right Ain't...
9. Fairport Convention — Si tu dois partir
10. Melanie — Ring the Living Bell
11. Kate and Anna McGarrigle — The Log Driver's Waltz (live in Nepean, Ontario, 1999-11-06)
12. Belle and Sebastian — I'm a Cuckoo (live at the Hollywood Bowl, 2006-07-06)
13. The Bird and the Bee — Again and Again (Hotel Room Bossanova Version)
14. The Roots — The Day
15. The Vogues — You're the One
16. The Buckinghams — Kind of a Drag
17. Petula Clark — You're the One
18. Cass Elliott — Make Your Own Kind of Music
19. Barry Gray (vocal by Guy Marly) — Fusée XL5 (Fireball XL5 closing theme)

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