Changing Weather and Power Trips!

Original air date March 10, 2018 | Time 59:00

What a week with Snowthunder and Power outages intruding into everyday life. The weather is changing, sometimes referred to as "Climate Change"... I frame the issue with two songs, Phil Ochs "Power and Glory", Leonard Cohen "The Land of Plenty" (May the light in the Land of Plenty shine on the truth someday). Paul Simon's "Questions for the Angels", Neil Young "Show Me" and Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi". Pixar's Movie WALL-E is a light hearted story of total environmental destruction of the Earth which mankind abandons. From the soundtrack we hear Peter Gabriel's "Down to Earth" and Tom Petty's "All You Can Carry". John Lennon's last day was Dec 8 1980 when he recorded the lead guitar track for Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice" about the unpredictable nature of the future. We finish with Joni Mitchell's "If I had a Heart" and Leonard Cohen's final work "You Want it Darker".

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A Reason to Smile

Original air date Feb 3, 2018 | Time 59:00

Music is so powerful. It can lift you up if you look for a reason to smile. If you go looking for a reason to smile you're going to find one.

Paul Simon's song "Punky's Dilemma" from Bookends by Simon and Garfunkle 1989. Biff Rose's second album The Children of Light 1969 is brillant. He wanted to be a stand-up comic in Los Angeles but ends up performing as a singer songwriter, appearing on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show over 12 times.

A Reason to Smile - Simon and Garfunkel, Biff Rose, Dan Hicks, Frank Zappa, Van Dyke Parks, Brian Wilson

Original air date Feb 3, 2018 | Time 59:00

Music is so powerful. It can lift you up if you look for a reason to smile. If you go looking for a reason to smile you're going to find one.

Paul Simon's song "Punky's Dilemma" from Bookends by Simon and Garfunkle 1989. Biff Rose's second album The Children of Light 1969 is brillant. He wanted to be a stand-up comic in Los Angeles but ends up performing as a singer songwriter, appearing on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show over 12 times.

Getting Ready for Christmas - Paul Simon, Sting, Pete Seeger, Beach Boys

Original air date December 9, 2017 | Time 59:00

Paul Simon "Getting Ready for Christmas Day", "The Afterlife", "Love and Blessings" from "So Beautiful or So What" 2011
Pete Seeger "The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" composed by Richard Farina from "God Bless the Grass" 1966, "To My Old Brown Earth" 2010
The Byrds "Turn, Turn, Turn" composed by Pete Seeger 1965
The Steve Miller Band "Winter Time" from "Book of Dreams" 1977
Sting "Hounds of Winter" composed by Sting from "If On a Winter's Night" 2009
Mick Jagger "Dancing in the Starlight" composed by Mick Jagger from "Goddess in the Doorway" 2001
The Beach Boys "Our Prayer","God Only knows" composed by Brian Wilson from "Pet Sounds" 1966
The Beatles "Across the Universe" 1969