WFDU-FM’s TRADITIONS playlist for April 1, 2007 (April Fools!!!)
April Fools Day is always a fun day to host a radio show. Can you think of another day where I could come up with a legitimate excuse to play Cher, Liberace, Chubby Checker, Jan & Dean, Spike Jones and Kate Smith?? All of these and more were featured in a segment that I referred to as “Folk Songs from Artists who should not be singing folk songs”.
As the playlist will show, the program featured a number of songs and artists who were appropriate to the spirit of the day.
On a more serious note, allthough still full of fun, my guests were Aztec Two-Step. Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman are doing some special concerts singing the Simon & Garfunkel Songbook, so I introduced them as Paul and Artie, two kids from Queens who were looking for a break. They launched into a superb version of “April Come She Will”. If you have a chance to see them, don’t pass it by! Rex and Neal pay tribute to the music of Simon & Garfunkel without doing an imitation. They make the songs their own! They will be appearin at the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club in Paramus (I also do the booking for them) on April 14th (www.hurdygurdyfolk.org ).
(Tune in to TRADITIONS every Sunday from 3 to 6pm Eastern Time
over WFDU-FM 89.1 in the NYC/Northern New Jersey
or on the web at www.wfdu.fm .
A Sing Out! Radio Partner )
ARTIST Tune / Song
ALBUM LABEL
Theme: HARVEY REID Dirty Dish Rag
Theme: HARVEY REID Dirty Dish Rag
Modern Maturity www.modernman3.com
THE FOREMAN A-Whalin
The Best of the Foreman http://foremen.royzimmerman.com
THE ARROGANT WORMS Shipwreck Balladeer
THE ARROGANT WORMS Shipwreck Balladeer
The Drugs I Need www.austinlizards.com
FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES Oh No
Such Things Are Finely Done www.artistsofnote.com/michael/index.html
DANNY BAKAN I Did My Laundry on Saturday Night
Try Me One More Time www.appleseedrec.com
GUESTS: AZTEC TWO-STEP – performed “April Come She Will”, “Bleeker Street”, “Feelin Groovy” and “The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarity” live in the studio, plus:
AZTEC TWO STEP Rabbit in the Moon
“…See it Was Like This” www.aztectwostep.com
JOEL MABUS Cluck Old Hen
The Banjo Monologues www.joelmabus.com
JAN & DEAN Folk City
Folk n’ Roll LP
CHUBBY CHECKER Tzena, Tzena
Chubby’s Folk Album Parkway
TRINI LOPEZ This Train
TRINI LOPEZ This Train
The Folk Album Reprise
SPIKE JONES Blowin in the Wind
SPIKE JONES Blowin in the Wind
Washington Square LP
KATE SMITH The Wreck of the Old 97
Hootenanny LP
CHER The Bells of Rhymny
CHER The Bells of Rhymny
All I Really Want to Do LP
BOB DYLAN Blue Moon
BOB DYLAN Blue Moon
Self-Portrait Columbia
LIBERACE Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
Liberace LP
NEIL DIAMOND The Last Thing on My Mind
Solitary Man Pickwick
TOM PAXTON The Last Thing On My Mind
Borrowed & Blue www.lessampou.com
DUANE ANDREWS Palm Sunday
====================
Ron Olesko
WFDU-FM
1000 River Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666