Today We Have Our ‘Original Sixties Rotation’ EP, Paul Simon’s Final Singer-Songwriter Airing and Joni Mitchell’s First, Plus Our Outgoing AOW, Saturday, October 22, 2022

Whew! Welcome to a busy Saturday here in The Mermaid Lounge! We’ve got a full slate of programming coming up for you today, starting with the final airing of Paul Simon’s stint at this week’s featured Singer-Songwriter.

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Here’s today’s lineup:

8:00 a.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Paul Simon FINAL AIRING!

Today is our third and final airing if this week’s Singer-Songwriter in the spotlight, Paul Simon, who has become one of the most respected songwriters of in popular music, and rightly so.

12:00 p.m. The Original Sixties Rotation: Various Artists

Today we give you our very first playlist ever with the music that inspired us to start this thing. You’ll hear Del Shannon, Little Eva, The Drifters, The Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Hollies, The Walker Brothers, Mary Wells, Dusty Springfield, The Searchers, The Monkees, Sonny & Cher, Petula Clark, Glen Campbell, Johnny Rivers, The Dave Clark Five, The Supremes, Harry Nilsson, The Band, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Simon & Garfunkel, Blind Faith, Janis Joplin, Tony Joe White, Barry McGuire, Marvin Gaye, The Who, Procol Harum, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and more!

8:00 p.m. Album of The Week: Their Satanic Majesties Request by The Rolling Stones FINAL AIRING!

The final airing of this week’s Album of The Week is here. Tomorrow, we’ll have a brand new selection for you when you manage to roll out of bed.

10:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Joni Mitchell NEW!

And tonight we unveil our new Singer-Songwriter in the spotlight for this week, Joni Mitchell. She too has spent decades in this business and has established herself as one of the most significant songwriters in music history. Tom Rush gave a lot of shine to the people we’ll be featuring in this series. He is heralded with kicking off the Singer-Songwriter era. He will have his own feature at some point.

Join us. It’s Saturday and we’ve already got a full Lounge here from around the globe. Join our global friends. We like globalism here. It works for us!

The Original Sixties Rotation!

Monday is Back and So Are We With The Temptations In the Spotlight, Some ‘Live’ Badfinger, and a Repeat Performance of Our New Singer-Songwriter Series, October 17, 2022

Good Morning, Musicologists! Another work week rolls around, but we’ve got you covered musically. We have a second airing of our first Singer-Songwriter feature with Paul Simon. We’ll be airing these on Saturday nights at 10:00 p.m. and will repeat them at different time slots a couple of times during the week.

***One of Motown’s finest, The Temptations, are In the Spotlight to start our programming.***

Here’s Monday’s lineup:

11:00 a.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of The Temptations

The Temptations hailed from Detroit, Michigan, and had an amazing string of hits for the fabled Motown Records during the sixties and seventies. They originated the ‘psychedelic soul’ genre with their Cloud Nine album.

3:00 p.m. Badfinger Live at The Cowtown Auditorium, Kansas City, MO, April 7, 1972

Truly the one band signed by Apple Records that had star power. Under the guidance of the Beatles, Badfinger delivered the goods, resulting in an amazing string of hits. Unfortunately, Apple Records eventually fell apart, and this forced Badfinger out from under the Beatles’ wing. This is where the band’s demise began, eventually resulting in the suicide of Pete Ham who had become the heart and soul of Badfinger. It should be noted that Ham had exhibited deteriorating mental health before this stress occurred, but it certainly didn’t help. He would not be the last member of Badfinger to commit suicide. Their story is told here. Badfinger is definitely a Mermaid Lounge favorite.

7:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: Paul Simon

The second airing of the first airing of our new Saturday night feature on singer-songwriters. We will run these a few times during the week at different times. The debut show features Paul Simon, an artist whose career spans six decades.

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Monday, Monday. Sigh.

Saturday Brings Our ‘Are You Ready For The Country’ EP, the Final Airing of Our AOW, and Our New Singer-Songwriter Series, October 15, 2022

Good Morning, Music Lovers! We start the day by announcing a new series revolving around singer-songwriters, some of them travel in pairs (Lennon-McCartney, John-Taupin, and some go solo, like James Taylor and Bob Dylan). To accommodate our new series, we are taking a break from our LIVE DEAD! broadcast. But fear not, we’ll move Dead concerts into the regular programming rotation.

***We kick off our new Singer-Songwriter Series tonight at 10:00 p.m.***

Here’s today’s line-up:

11:00 a.m. Are You Ready for The Country: Various Artists

Once again, we pay homage to the pioneers of the country-rock genre and also to the artists of real country music (not bad pop bands with fiddles). You’ll hear from Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Pure Prairie League, Asleep at The Wheel, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Marshall Tucker Band, Jerry Jeff Walker, Mudcrutch, The Band, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Glen Campbell, Rosanne Cash, Dan Fogelberg, New Riders of The Purple Sage, John Prine, The Desert Rose Band and more!

7:00 p.m. Album of The Week: Gris-Gris by Dr. John FINAL AIRING!

This is the final day for Gris-Gris, Dr. John’s debut album combining New Orleans R & B with Psychedelic Voodoo. Tomorrow when you roll out of bed, we’ll have a new psychedelic album!

10:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriters: The Music of Paul Simon NEW!

We put LIVE DEAD! on hiatus for a while and begin our series on Singer-Songwriters in this broadcast hour. You’ll be hearing from some of our regulars, but there’ll be some new additions as well. Every Saturday night at 10:00 p.m. We begin to night with the music of Paul Simon, both as a member of Simon & Garfunkel and as a solo artist.

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Singer-Songwriter Debuts!