Category: Show Notes

Today we celebrated Carnegie Mellon University’s new campus in Rwanda by debuting this new song by Heath Kit & The Sidetones:

• “Help Rwanda” – Heath Kit & The Sidetones (2.6MB, MP3)

New music this week was from:

• Gaby Moreno, “No Regrets” from Illustrated Songs
• The Cynics, “Spinning Wheel Motel” from the album of the same name
• The Goldberg Sisters, “Shush” (radio edit) from the self-titled CD

 
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Jay’s Pick to Click: “No Regrets” by Gaby Moreno

One of the prices of having a show on a college-run radio station is that you have to make sure you do things for the students at the college — whose student activities fees are supporting the radio station!

With that in mind, we get pre-empted from time to time for sports and other events. Fall is especially bad, because the CMU Tartans football team generally plays on Saturday afternoons.

We hope you’ll tune in for CMU football on WRCT, your home of Tartans sports since 1949. And don’t forget that Your Radio Pal, Jay Thurber, does the half-time shows!

Otherwise, here’s the schedule. We’re completely pre-empted on Sept. 24 and Oct. 24, and we’ve got shortened shows on Oct. 1 and 22 and Nov. 5 and 12.

• Fri., Sept. 16 @ Catholic University, 7 p.m.
• Sat., Sept. 24 @ Kenyon College, 12 noon
• Sat., Oct. 1 @ Hiram College, 1 p.m.
• Sat., Oct. 8, home vs. Ohio Wesleyan University, 6 p.m.
• Sat., Oct. 22 @ Wittenberg University, 1 p.m.
• Sat., Oct. 29, home vs. Washington University (CMU HOMECOMING), 12 noon
• Sat., Nov. 5 @ University of Chicago, 1 p.m. (12 noon CST)
• Sat., Nov. 12, home vs. Case Western Reserve University, 2 p.m.

There was a story recently in the Pittsburgh Puppy-Trainer about WMBS radio in Uniontown, which fired one of its talk show hosts who was critical about the natural gas drilling industry.

Coincidentally … or maybe not … WMBS had just started running a weekly two-hour talk show paid for by the natural gas drilling industry.

So why shouldn’t a non-profit radio station cash in, too? Here’s WRCT’s newest show, all about the gas-drilling industry.

“Gas Talk” with Frick and Frack, the Tapping Brothers

This week’s playlist is posted at the WRCT website.

New music this week included:

• “The Death of Donny B.” by Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 from the album Northern Aggression
• “Mr. Medicine” by Eliza Doolittle
• “Kyenkyen Bi Adi M’Awu” by K. Frimpong & His Cubanos Fiestas from the collection Ghana Special Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81
• “I Like It Like That” by the Rebirth Brass Band from the album Rebirth of New Orleans
• “George Porter” by Irvin Mayfield from the album A Love Letter to New Orleans
• “It’s a Jungle Out There” by the Jambalaya Brass Band from the album of the same name

This week’s pick to click is in honor of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner:

“Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)” — Perry Como

A recent clinical study showed that seven out of 10 Americans are embarrassed by santorum. Now there’s fast-acting relief from Neville Island Pharmaceuticals:

• Harv Pauley’s Story Behind the Story, June 11, 2011

Spice up mom’s kitchen with spices from McGipney’s Big M Markets! Plus, here’s your produce tip for the day from Joe Grouchione, The Fresh Grocer:

• The Fresh Grocer for May 7, 2011

This week’s playlist is posted at the WRCT website.

Jay’s Pick to Click: “Eliza Doolittle” by Eliza Doolittle

The playlist is online at WRCT’s website.

WRCT’s award-winning correspondent Roy Molehill attended the recent NRA convention in Pittsburgh. His report is now online:

• Roy Molehill: Interview at NRA Convention

(By the way, some of you have asked what awards Roy has won. He was three-time spelling bee champion of Butler County and received a blue ribbon for “Largest Squash” at a 4-H event in 1965.)

New music this week included:

• “El Alegron” by Rosendo Maqrtinez y su Orquesta from the new collection Cartagena!
• “Noble Kings” by Dr. K. Gyasi and His Noble Kings from the new collection Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanian Blues 1968-81
• “If I Find Love” by The Unfazed

Jay’s Pick to Click: The Best of Bobby Rydell

This week’s playlist is available at the WRCT website.

By popular demand, here’s our Penguins hockey song. It’s a re-mix of Stompin’ Tom Connors’ “The Good Old Hockey Game” with play calls by Penguins announcer Mike Lange. Never teach a pig to sing!

“The Good Old Mike Lange Hockey Song” by Stompin’ Tom Connors and Mike Lange

New music this week included:

• “B-O-O-G-A-L-O-O” from What Goes Around Comes Around by the Diplomats of Solid Sound.
• “Haitian Fight Song” from Meeting of the Spirits by Matt Haimovitz & Uccello
• “Spot On Phunk” from Something Freaky by Basement Freaks
• “The Weakest Man” from Go-Go Boots by the Drive-By Truckers
• “Owuo Adaadaa Me” by T.O. Jazz from the double-disc set Ghana Special Moder Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanian Blues, 1968-81
• “Que S’est-il Passe” from Lifeboats and Follies by Tommy Guerrero
• “It’s a Jungle Out There” by the Jambalaya Brass Band

Jay’s Pick to Click: Lifeboats & Follies by Tommy Guerrero

This week’s playlist is available at the WRCT website.

First, a word from our old friend, Carl Ringgold, for the Liberty Borough Mutual Insurance Company: Moron Protection Policy

Our interview with Michelle Wardle, executive director of McKeesport Heritage Center, can be heard here: Interview with Michelle Wardle

JAY’S PICK TO CLICK: ¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta! by the Two Man Gentlemen Band.

The playlist is available at the WRCT website. New music includes:

 

• “Shakin’ All Over” by Wanda Jackson from the disc, The Party Ain’t Over Yet;
• “Jealous” by the Diplomats of Solid Sound from the disc, What Goes Around, Comes Around;
• “The Death of Donny B” by Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 from the disc, Northern Aggression; and
• “The Leisure Class” by The Two Man Gentlemen Band from the disc, Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta

JAY’S PICK TO CLICK: The Party Ain’t Over

Please patronize our sponsors. After all, they’ve been patronizing to us for years:

• Commercial: “Sepsis Gazette-Equivocator”

The following program is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real public-affairs shows aired by real Pittsburgh radio stations is strictly intentional:

• The Coolidge Radio Journal: Interview with Congressman Matt Poomey

This week’s playlist is available at the WRCT website. New music featured on this week’s show includes:

• “I Do Believe” by the Drive-By Truckers from their new album, Go-Go Boots;
• Nikki Yanofsky performing “It’s a Small World” from the disc Everybody Wants To Be A Cat: Disney Jazz Volume 1;
• “Mint Julep” by Etta Baker from the disc, Railroad Bill; and
• The Viking Combo Band performing “Pleng Yuk Owakard” from the disc, The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand 1964-1975

JAY’S PICK TO CLICK: What Goes Around Comes Around