Tag: The Shirelles

On Thursday We Open With ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul,’ Then It’s Live Allman Brothers Band, and a Laura Nyro ‘Spotlight’, April 24, 2025

We’re headed toward the weekend today. It’s all downhill from here. We open with five hours of soul and R & B music, then we’ve got the Allman Brothers Band live at the Beacon and Laura Nyro ‘In the Spotlight!’

Here’s your Thursday lineup:

9:00 a.m. A Little Bit O’ Soul: Various Artists

We start off with five uninterrupted hours of soul and R & B with Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, The Drifters, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Carla Thomas, James Brown, The Shirelles, Etta James, Curtis Mayfield, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Nina Simone, LaVern Baker, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Edwin Starr, Sam Cooke, Fontella Bass, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Irma Thomas, The Box Tops and more!

4:00 p.m. The Allman Brothers Band Live at The Beacon Theater, New York, NY, March 10 & 11, 1992

The Brothers give yet another masterful live performance at The Beacon in NYC.

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Laura Nyro

We close out the programming with a ‘Spotlight’ featuring the amazing Laura Nyro. She was a catalyst for many artists who covered her songs.

We are closer to the weekend, folks, and that means stability in a nation with a very unstable lout in office. Here in The Mermaid Lounge we play the best music on the planet and the journey is everything. The button is below.

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On Friday It’s a New Beatles Playlist, a Zombies ‘Spotlight’, and The Who Live at Shea Stadium, March 7, 2025

Good morning, musicologists! We are officially on the cusp of the weekend once again and we’ve got a great lineup that includes a brand new Beatles playlist we think you’ll love!

Here’s your Friday lineup:

10:00 a.m. Repeat After Me: The Beatles Edition NEW!

We start out with a brand new Beatles playlist that we love here in The Lounge. Like every other band, The Fab Four started as a cover band. As Tom Petty says, that’s how every band learns to write and sets their own style. It was no different for The Beatles, who cover Arthur Alexander, The Shirelles, Carl Perkins, The Isley Brothers, Smokey Robinson and more in this edition!

4:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Zombies

One of the finest bands out of Britain is up ‘In The Spotlight’ this afternoon as we focus on music from across the pond today.

8:00 p.m. The Who Live at Shea Stadium, New York, NY, October 13, 1982

We close out the day’s programming with a fine live performance by The Who at Shea Stadium, which is now known as Citi Field, by the way.

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We’re Feeling Soulful With Our Big EP, a Drifters ‘Spotlight’, and Live Nina Simone on Saturday, February 22, 2025

Good morning, soul and R & B lovers! We’re amped up today as we bring you ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’ for starters, then it’s the Drifters ‘In the Spotlight’ and some live Nina Simone!

Here’s your Saturday lineup:

9:00 a.m. A Little Bit O’ Soul: Various Artists

We officially begin the weekend with our biggest soul music EP, featuring Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Ronettes, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, The Drifters, Stevie Wonder, Carla Thomas, James Brown, The Shirelles, Etta James, Curtis Mayfield, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Nina Simone, LaVern Baker, The Supremes, Sam Cooke, Edwin Starr, Fontella Bass, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Irma Thomas, Ann Peebles, Al Green and more!

4:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of The Drifters

The Drifters have an interesting background, reflecting the social injustice of the times. It’s too long for me to write about on this blog, but you can read all about it here. Regardless, they made some great music and we’ve got them ‘In the Spotlight’ today.

8:00 p.m. Nina Simone Live at Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France, July 24 & 25, 1965 NEW!

Today we celebrate the birthday (February 21) of the late, great Nina Simone, singer, songwriter, music arranger and, yes, civil rights and social justice activist. Here she’s live at the the annual Jazz a Juan International Jazz Festival. We need her fighting spirit now.

Come on in to The Mermaid Lounge for a little bit of soul and R & B today. In between that programming, we’ve got our big, wide Open Stream running 24/7 at no charge. We’re anti-capitalist. We care about only one thing: Playing great music for you folks with absolutely no commercial interruption. The button is below.

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Monday is Back and We’ve Got ‘Working Songs’, Volume Two of ‘Repeat After Me’ and The Beatles, February 10, 2025

Good morning, workers! The work week is back and we start out with songs about working, then we’re on to volume to of our ‘Repeat After Me’ series and something from The Fab Four.

Here’s your Monday musical lineup:

10:00 a.m. Working Songs: Various Artists

It’s only fitting that we start out Monday morning with songs about working from Jim Croce, The Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Janis Joplin, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, Slim Harpo, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Emmylou Harris, The Beatles, Sam Cooke, Woody Guthrie, Dolly Parton, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and more!

4:00 p.m. Repeat After Me: Volume Two

We’re into originals and their reboots again today with The Beatles covering The Isley Brothers, Johnny Winter covering Bob Dylan, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers covering Booker T & The MGs, Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy covering The Left Banke, The Mamas & The Papas covering the Shirelles and many more!

8:00 p.m. The Beatles: A Change In Time

The Fab Four are up to close out the programming with their songs incorporating time signature changes. This is a fun playlist.

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On Sunday, It’s ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’, Live Emmylou Harris, and The Pretenders ‘In The Spotlight’, January 26, 2025

Good morning, music lovers! We’re all over the musical map today with our ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’ EP, some live Emmylou Harris and The Pretenders ‘In the Spotlight’ later!

Here’s your Sunday Funday lineup:

9:00 a.m. A Little Bit O’ Soul: Various Artists

We start the day off with our big kahuna of soul and R & B encompassing Motown, Stax and Atlantic, among others. You’ll hear Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Ronettes, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Jimmy Ruffin, The Drifters, Stevie Wonder, Carla Thomas, James Brown, The Shirelles, Etta James, Curtis Mayfield, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Nina Simone, LaVern Baker, The Supremes, Sam Cooke, Fontella Bass, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Irma Thomas, The Box Tops, Ann Peebles, Al Green and more!

4:00 p.m. Emmylou Harris Live at My Father’s Place, Roslyn, New York, September 14, 1976

This afternoon we’ve got some early Emmylou Harris from My Father’s Place, a popular venue for young, aspiring artists on Long Island.

8:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of The Pretenders

Chrissie Hynde’s band brings up the rear with some hard-edged rock as we close out the day’s programming.

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Today It’s an Al Green ‘Spotlight’, Live Rolling Stones and Our ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’ EP on Saturday, December 28, 2024

Good morning, soulful revelers! We’ve got a great lineup today that includes our ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’ EP that combines the best of Motown, Stax, Atlantic and others to deliver the best of soul and R & B during the sixties and seventies.

Here’s your Saturday musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Al Green

One of the absolute best here, the Reverend Al. Here’s a little treat to whet your whistle, as they say. Al Green joins with Chicago on a TV special from back in 1978 for Tired of Being Alone. A gem.

1:00 p.m. The Rolling Stones Live at The Hoffheinz Pavillion, Ft. Worth, TX, June 24-25, 1972 NEW!

This performance is new to our station. We’ve never aired it before. I saw the Stones live in Boston around this time back in the day. One of the best I’ve seen.

4:00 p.m. A Little Bit O’ Soul: Various Artists

We’ve got our big, bad soul and R & B EP to take us into the evening tonight with Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Jackson Five, Marvin Gaye, Martha & The Vandellas, Sam & Dave, The Four Tops. The Ronettes, The Temptations, Carla Thomas, James Brown, The Shirelles, Etta James, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, Edwin Starr, Fontella Bass, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Ray Charles, Irma Thomas, The Box Tops, Ann Peebles, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Otis Redding, The Drifters and more!

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Friday It’s Our ‘Banned From the Airwaves’ Playlist, Live Steely Dan & a Wilson Pickett ‘Spotlight’ on November 22, 2024

We’ve made it to Friday! Today we’re kicking it off with a bunch of songs that have one thing in common: They were all initially banned from the airwaves for one reason or another. Then, it’s live Steely Dan and a Wicked Wilson Pickett spotlight!

Here’s your freaky Friday lineup:

10:00 a.m. Banned From the Airwaves: Various Artists

Songs like Kodachrome (talking about the crap you learn in high school), Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds and You Don’t Know How It Feels (references to drugs), Imagine and God Only Knows (references to God), Arnold Layne and Lola (references to transgender people), Brown Eyed Girl and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (references to sex) and more were all banned from the airwaves, although not permanently. We’ve got a great playlist here coming up first this morning.

3:00 p.m. Steely Dan Live at The Woodlands, Houston, TX, September 3, 1993

We’ve got a great midafternoon live performance by The Dan today, without doubt a Mermaid Lounge favorite and one of the shining lights of the seventies.

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Wilson Pickett NEW!

Here’s another one ticked off my ‘To Do’ list. This one has also been a long time coming. Wicked Wilson Pickett was one of the stalwarts of the soul music movement, charting 50 hits on the R & B charts, many of which crossed over to Billboard’s Hot 100. Today he gets his ‘Spotlight’ feature.

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On Friday It’s The Byrds, The Kinks, The Soul Sisters and a Lot of Big, Wide Open Stream, November 8, 2024

Good morning, music lovers, and welcome to Friday. We’re on track for some great music today. There is no EP running, so there’ll be plenty of big, wide Open Stream in between!

Here’s your musical lineup:

10:00 a.m. The Byrds Live at The Ash Grove Music Club, Los Angeles, CA, August 22, 1970 NEW!

We found a new live Byrds show out there and snatched it up for ourselves. Today, we air it for you.

4:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of The Kinks

One of the finest of the British Invasion bands is ‘In The Spotlight’ this afternoon, led by the feuding Davies brothers.

8:00 p.m. The Soul Sisters: Various Artists

We’re closing the programming with a great soul music playlist courtesy of the soul sisters like Irma Thomas, Aretha Franklin, The Ronettes, Carla Thomas, Martha & The Vandellas, Barbara Lewis, The Shirelles, Etta James, Kim Weston, Diana Ross & The Supremes and more!

It’s the end of the work week, thankfully, and we’ve made it. We’re on the cusp of being weekenders! We’ll help you navigate the day. The button is below.

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We’ve Got ‘M is For Motown’, A Temptations Spotlight Feature, and The Soul Sisters on Thursday, June 13, 2024

Good morning, soul and R&B lovers! We’ve lined up three great playlists for you today that includes our multi-artist ‘M is For Motown’ EP.

Here’s your programming lineup:

9:00 a.m. M is For Motown: Various Artists

We start the day off with the Motown Sound from Barrett Strong, Eddie Kendricks, Eddie Holland, Edwin Starr, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Jackson Five, Kim Weston, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Marvin Gaye, Martha & The Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops, The Isley Brothers, The Temptations, The Contours, Rare Earth, Mary Wells, Tammi Terrell and more!

4:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of The Temptations

The band that was instrumental in putting Motown on the map also invented the psychedelic soul genre.

8:00 p.m. The Soul Sisters, Volume One: Various Artists

This evening we hear from the ladies, including Aretha Franklin, Irma Thomas, Etta James, Carla Thomas, The Ronettes, The Velvelettes, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Barbara Lewis, Martha &The Vandellas, Fontella Bass, Ann Peebles, The Shirelles, Kim Weston and more!

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Welcome to Monday With Ray Charles and Our ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’ EP, April 22, 2024

Welcome to Monday, Monday. In between Ray Charles and our ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’ EP, we’ve got a bunch of great wide Open Stream to kick off the week.

Here’s Monday’s lineup:

10:00 a.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Ray Charles NEW!

This one has been a long time coming and it’s finally here. We kick off the program with a long-awaited Ray Charles spotlight. We have been remiss and we repent.

3:00 p.m. A Little Bit O’ Soul: Various Artists

We move from Ray Charles into our big, bad soul and R&B EP, where you’ll hear more Ray Charles in addition to Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Ronettes, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Jimmy Ruffin, The Drifters, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Carla Thomas, James Brown, The Shirelles, Etta James, Curtis Mayfield, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Nina Simone, LaVern Baker, The Supremes, Sam Cooke, Edwin Starr, Fontella Bass, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Irma Thomas, The Box Tops, Jr. Walker & the All Stars, Eddie Floyd, Ann Peebles, Al Green and more!

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