Jay Thurber Show

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

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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