We fall into fall with new episodes of our music specialty shows that debut on Wednesday afternoon, as The AIR brings you new installmentsof Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, each of which present a special theme.  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 an episode of music that is “Beatle Related.”

As to what that entails…well, we open with a song heard in Magical Mystery Tour that was not performed by The Beatles, then we have a selection of tunes released on Apple Records that feature musical contributions from the Fab Four, and from there we have covers, collaborations and more that are all…Beatle Releated.

Check out this playlist:

Beatles Blast 125

The Bonzo Dog Band “Death Cab For Cutie”
Jackie Lomax “Sour Milk Sea”
Hot Chocolate Band “Give Peace A Chance”
Billy Preston “My Sweet Lord”
Bill Elliott & The Elastic Oz Band “God Save Us”
Doris Troy “Try Some Buy Some”
Keith Moon “Solid Gold” “In My Life” “Move Over Ms. L”
Yoko Ono featuring Death Cab For Cutie “Forgive Me My Love”
Marshall Crenshaw “Love Me Do”
Eric Clapton & Paul McCartney “Something”
Elton John “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”
Dice “Penny Lane

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, in time for an upcoming Broadway Revival, Mel Larch presents a mixtape sampler of The Musical, Chess. 

With Lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Benny and Bjorn from Abba, Chess has developed a cult following after premiering in the mid 1980s. Several productions and revivals have happened since then, with major changes to the book and songs added and dropped. The new Broadway revival, in the Imperial Theater, which was home to the ill-fated 1988 initial Broadway run, will open in October, 2025, with a completely re-written book, once again.

The story involves a politically driven, Cold War-era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other.

This week Mel has stictched together a collection of highlights from the musical, using the original concept album, the first London Cast album, the first Broadway Cast album, an acclaimed Dutch touring production and even one song in Swedish.

Check out the list of songs, in order…

One Night In Bangkok
The Story of Chess
Quartet
Where I Want To Be
Terrace Duet
Mountain Duet
Urgen ’56
You and I
Pity the Child
I Know Him So Well
The Deal (No Deal)
Epilogue

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.