Here's the playlist for my latest Popsurfing radio show. It airs weekly on WEFT Champaign 90.1 fm on Thursday night/Friday morning from 1 am to 3 am. You can stream it live online at weft.org.
You can download the episode on iTunes. Enjoy!
Wanna make a request? Here are some potential themes for upcoming shows. Feel free to email me with a request for one of your favorite songs that fits the theme and I'll try to fit it in.
POPSURFING -- THEMES FOR UPCOMING SHOWS
November 26 -- songs about giving thanks (or songs that refuse to)
December 3 -- hard times
December 10 -- family (parents, kids, brothers and sisters, in-laws)
December 17 -- sleep, the night (because we'll be putting the year to rest soon)
December 24 -- holiday music
December 31 -- drinking
PLAYLIST FOR RAIN (airdate: 11-20-2009)
1. 12:00AM Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” from The Singing Detective
2. 12:04AM Mayer Hawthorne “I Wish It Would Rain” from A Strange Arrangement
3. Monologue -- record rainfall in Champaign; wettest spot in the world
4. 12:07AM The Mavericks “Here Comes The Rain” from Music For All Occasions
5. audio clip from film "Rain Man" -- Tom Cruise discusses imaginary friend
6. 12:11AM Somi “If The Rains Come First” from If the Rains Come First
7. 12:14AM B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head” from Burt Bacharach & Friends -- Gold
8. Monologue -- technical difficulties, ringing phone, origin of "raining cats and dogs"
9. 12:17AM Ron Sexsmith “Raindrops In My Coffee” from Sexsmith & Kerr: Destination Unknown
10. 12:20AM Alison Krauss & Union Station “Rain Please Go Away” from Lonely Runs Both Ways
11. audio clip from "Young Frenkenstein" - grave robbing is a dirty job
12. 12:24AM Big Maybelle “Rain Down Rain” from Big Maybelle The Complete OKeh Sessions
13. Monologue -- song cut off short so an MP3 must have been an MP2; upcoming shows
14. 12:28AM Brook Benton “Rainy Night In Georgia” from Can You Dig It? The 70s Soul Experience
13. Monologue naming cities all over the world where it's raining right now with music in background -- 12:31AM Peter, Paul and Mary “It's Raining” from Around The Campfire
13. 12:34AM Missy Elliott “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” from Supa Dupa Fly
14. 12:38AM Al Green “Standing In The Rain” from Lay It Down
15. 12:41AM Amy Lou Barnes, Sally Mueller “Little April Shower” from Bambi
16. 12:45AM Dinah Washington “Pennies From Heaven” from After Hours With Miss D
17. Monologue -- CCR songs about the rain, "Who'll Stop The Rain" -- PSA for local meetings for vets of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
18. 12:50AM Ladysmith Black Mambazo “Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain” from Shaka Zulu
19. 12:55AM Sondre Lerche “I Guess It's Gonna Rain Today” from Heartbeat Radio
20. Monologue -- pledge drive
21. 01:00AM Vashti Bunyan “Come Wind Come Rain” from Just Another Diamond Day
22. audio clip from "My Fair Lady"
23. 01:04AM Richard Robbins “The Storm” from A Room With A View
24. 01:07AM Mahalia Jackson “Didn't It Rain” from The World's Greatest Gospel Singer
25. 01:10AM The Beatles “Rain” from Abbey Road
26. Monologue -- story about my insisting George Harrison wrote "Rain" when in fact it was John Lennon
27. 01:12AM George Buck, Red-jacket & Group "Rain Dance (Canada)" from Alan Lomax Collection Sampler
28. 01:13AM Audra McDonald, Steve Kazee “The Rain Song” from 110 In The Shade
29. 01:17AM Duke Ellington “Raincheck” from Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
30. audio clip from "Rain Man"
31. 01:20AM Jeffrey Foskett “Laughter in The Rain” from Stars In The Sand
32. Monologue -- drive more carefully when it's rainingl PSA about car repairs, insurance and your rights
33. 01:23AM Justin Currie “In The Rain” from What Is Love For
34. 01:26AM Sonny Terry, Brownie ^McGhee “Rainy Day” from Backwater Blues
35. 01:29AM Jimi Hendrix “Rainy Day, Dream Away” from Electric Ladyland
36. audio clip from "Hannah and Her Sisters" of ee cumming poem
37. 01:33AM Melody Gardot “The Rain” from My One And Only Thrill
38. Monologue -- leaky roof in my house; PSA about home improvement loans for Urbana residents; pledge drive
39. 01:37AM John Mellencamp “Rain On The Scarecrow” from Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits
40. 01:40AM The Flatlanders “After The Storm” from Hills and Valleys
41. 01:43AM Sterling Holloway “Little Black Rain Cloud” from The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh
42. 01:47AM Freddy Cole “Rain Is Such A Lonesome Sound” from Waiter, Ask The Man To Play The Blues
43. 01:51AM Tom Waits “Rain Dogs” from Rain Dogs
44. 01:54AM Alan Lomax “Ain't Gonna Rain No More” from Deep River Of Song: Alabama
45. 01:56AM Bing Crosby “Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella” from Bing With A Beat
46. 02:00AM The Serendipity Singers “Don't Let The Rain Come Down” from The Folk Years: Blowin' In The Wind
47. Monologue about leaky roof; PSA about help for homeless men
48. 02:03AM Gary Allan “Songs About Rain” from See If I Care
49. audio clip from "My Fair Lady"
50. 02:08AM Adele “Right As Rain” from 19
51. 02:12AM Kaiser Chiefs “Tomato In The Rain” from Off With Their Heads
52. Monologue -- a reading of Richard Brautigan's "It's Raining In Love"
53. 02:16AM Karen Dalton “Little Bit Of Rain” from It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best
54. 02:19AM Delois Barrett Campbell “The Storm Is Passing Over” from Say Amen Somebody
55. 02:24AM The Jayhawks “Save It For A Rainy Day” from Rainy Day Music
56. audio clip from "Psycho"
57. 02:27AM Eva Cassidy “Blues Eyes Crying In The Rain” from Somewhere
58. Monologue -- pledge drive
58. 02:30AM The Beta Band “Dry The Rain” from The Three E.P.s
59. 02:37AM Catherine Deneuve “Chez Tante Elise” from The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
60. 02:40AM Paul Weller “Early Morning Rain” from Studio 150
61. 02:44AM Robert Wyatt “Raining In My Heart” from Cuckooland
62. Monologue -- a reading of "Souls and Rain Drops" by Sidney Lanier; PSA for downloading audio books from library
63. 02:49AM Everything But The Girl “My Head Is Only House Unless It Rains” from Like The Deserts Miss The Rain
64. audio clip from "Taxi Driver"
65. 02:55AM Randy Newman “I Think It's Going To Rain Today” from Guilty: 30 Years Of Randy Newman
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