The Rummage Sale (Book Learnin’) 7/30/19 Tues 3-6PM

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[b:dd20629eab]Paperback Book Day.
Thanks to Mike C and Jim H for some of the tunes.[/b:dd20629eab]

READING RAINBOW THEME- Me Tac (suggested by Zack and Adam)

CROSSROADS- Tom Waits (cowritten by William Burroughs)
(suggested by Mike L)

GREAT EXPECTATIONS- Gaslight Anthem (suggested by Zack)

BIG SUR- Thrills (suggested by Zack)

SYLVIA PLATH- Ryan Adams

MY ANTONIA- Emmylou Harris and Dave Matthews

DEATH OF A SALESMAN- Steve Goodman

WHITE RABBIT- Jefferson Airplane

A HIT BY VARESE- Chicago (named after the play??) (requested by Jim from Preston)

GYPSY DAVY- Cordelia’s Dad (Cordelia’s Dad being King Lear)

CAN’T TELL A BOOK BY ITS COVER- Tom Rush

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON- Pink Floyd (suggested by Mike C)

A PLACE IN THE SUN- Stevie Wonder

DINOSAUR IN YOUR BATHTUB- Trout Fishing in America (suggested by Jim from Preston)

A JOURNEY IN THE DARK- Bo Hanssen (from the album Lord of the Rings)

FRANKENSTEIN- Bazooka (by request)

[u:dd20629eab]TRIBUTES![/u:dd20629eab]

ALABAMA JUBILEE- R. Crumb’s Cheap Suit Serenaders (RIP Paul Krassner)

THIRD RATE ROMANCE- The Amazing Rhythm Aces (RIP leader Russell Smith)

ALL THESE THINGS – Art Neville (RIP)

SIN CITY- Flying Burrito Brothers (RIP Rutger Hauer)

ROGUES IN A NATION- Steeleye Span (Jim says written by Robert Burns)

A ROSE FOR EMILY- Zombies (by request)

DON QUIXOTE- Gordon Lightfoot

ROMEO AND JULIET- Dire StraIts (by request)

CAN’T FIND THE TIME- Orpheus (the greatest song in the past 1000 years)

TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES- Cream

1984- Spirit (for Danny)

PICTURE BOOK- Kinks

TOM JOAD- Woody Guthrie

ENCYCLOPEDIA- Jiminy Cricket (requested by Bill J)

HOLDEN CAULFIELD- Tom Freund

PERSECUTION & RESTORATION OF DEAN MORIARTY- Aztec Two Step

BALLAD OF WILLAM SYCAMORE- Tom Russell (from a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet)

RING THING- Pearls Before Swine

EVERY DAY I WRITE THE BOOK- Elvis Costello (three requests)

FAMILY BIBLE- Commander Cody’s Lost Planet Airmen (requested by Dan)

PAPERBACK WRITER- Charles River Valley Boys (Six requests)

EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES- Gaslight Anthem

GHOST OF TOM JOAD- Bruce Springsteen

ZANE GREY- Tom Russell

BALLAD OF EDWARD ABBEY- Tom Russell

SHE’S COME UNDONE- The Guess Who

FALL OF TROY- Tom Waits (requested by Mike L)

GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN- Judy Collins

EVERYTHING IS SORROW- The Boo Radleys

JACK AND NEIL- Tom Waits

[b:dd20629eab]This was certainly an interesting and pretty great three hours. It’s always fun at the station, but this was wild. I’d already had plenty of suggestions coming in, but the calls were amazing, discussing, among others, Ambrose Bierce, Faulkner and Steven Vincent Benet. I always knew I had the best listeners, but now I realize, I also have the most literate. It was a great, if exhausting three hours.

Next Tuesday is National Night Out, so all the songs will have Night, or a variant thereof, in the title.[/b:dd20629eab]

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