Show 102: Songs

[Added on 2015/7/18:  This used to be called Show 2.  I've renumbered the shows, so that this one is Show102.  The July 4th show for this year will be numbered numbered Show201, and so on.  If you didn't figure this out yet, my first show aired the week of July 4th, 2014.]

2014 July 19^th  (Saturday)
Part A    Part B   [Not yet linked:] Part C, Part D

This show is to be two hours long; this will be the format from now on, until they change something.  It is chopped into 4 (roughly half-hour) sections, A, B, C and D.

The theme is songs, from classical arias to popular songs.  The first example is a song by Julie Andrews, followed up with a variety of songs from various places, and by various singers, including Emma Kirkby, Paul Simon, Bryn Terfel, Paul McCartney, Paul Robeson, and Sam Brown [more than our fair share of Pauls], Arlo Guthrie, Ben Heppner, and featuring composers from Bach and Arne to Wagner and Schubert, George Harrison, and Richard Strauss.

I apologize (on the show broadcast last night on the radio) for the awful bass rumble I could hear when I listened through the Internet via Tune-In Radio.  I compressed the files, to reduce the volume variation, but as a result I amplified the low-frequency background noise during silences.  For the podcast files, I put in a high-pass filter, which is supposed to fade out the deep bass, but of course that makes the bass a little less ... you know.  Bassy.

I’m afraid that this show is using up more of my most favorite tracks faster than I really intended.  Out of the 1,000 or so hours of music I own, about 10 hours comprise the music that I really, really wanted to share, and at the rate of an hour a week, I could stretch them out over many shows.  But this two-hour format is eating up my collection twice as fast!  You guys will have to listen to junk beginning around September.  You know how it is; you buy a CD in which there’s maybe one song you really want, or two...  These days, I tend to buy one track at a time.

The song by Tom Lehrer to end the hour is getting to be a tradition that I enjoy; I’m going to have to dream up a way of continuing the tradition.  We must find new traditions to make the 2-hour format interesting.

Archie