In observation of Valentine’s Day, which happens this coming Saturday, we offer up new lovey-dovey episodes of our shows that debut on Wednesday afternoon, as The AIR brings you new installments of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, each of which offer their own slant on love.  You can tune in at the website, or just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM (EDT) Beatles Blast brings you a solid hour of different artists performing the Beatles song, “All You Need Is Love.” Aside from it being my catchphrase on the show, and damned great song, our reason for this is pretty freaking obvious.

You will hear the song in question performed by a dazzling array of artists, as you will see listed below:

Beatles Blast 128

“All You Need Is Love”
by
New Musik
John Bayless
Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart and Joe Cocker
Neri Per Caso
Nada Surf
Jason Lytle
Daryl Hall
Jamie Lancaster
Yusef Islam and Paul McCartney
Echo & The Bunnymen
String Quartet
Elvis Costello
James Last
John Wetton and Robby Krieger
The Beatles

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM (EDT) on Curtain Call, Mel Larch brings you a mixtape comprised of three versions of the musical, She Loves Me.

You will hear songs from The Original Broadway Cast Album from 1963, the London Cast Album from 1964 and the 2016 Broadway Revival, which was the first-ever Broadway show to be streamed live. Listeners will be treated to performances by Gavin Creel, Rita Moreno, Jack Cassidy, Laura Benanti and more.

She Loves Me is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The original Broadway run was directed by the legendary Hal Prince.

This is the third English-language adaptation of the 1937 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklós László.

The first adaptation was the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner and the second was the 1949 musical version, In the Good Old Summertime. The plot revolves around Budapest shop employees Georg and Amalia, who, despite being consistently at odds with each other at work, are unaware that each is the other’s secret pen pal met through lonely-hearts ads.

Later, this same story was adapted into the movie You’ve Got Mail.

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A six-hour marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.