Like last week, we have a cool new episode of RFC to help you deal with the hot weather Tuesday on The AIR.   Radio Free Charleston, is one-third new/two-third classic RFC this week.  To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with tons of replays throughout the week.

This week we open with a new hour of our usual free-format mix of local, indepedent and whatever else I might feel like playing. Then, for no reason other than living the cliché, we bring you CHRISTMAS IN JULY! I dug out the 2016 RFC Christmas special and dropped it into this week’s second and third hours because…why not?

Our first hour opens with the title track from Frenchy & The Punk’s new album, Midnight Garden, and offers up new music from Clownhole, Messer Chups, Tucker Rigglean & The Cheap Dates, Sierra Ferrell and The Settlement. We also bring you some oldies from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Our Christmassy second hour is mostly a collection of local holiday music from our video archives. Hour three is mostly a distillation of our 1989 Christmas show, which was broadcast on WVNS back during the original incarnation of RFC.

I gotta be honest…I was planning to do this last year but I forgot about it until I was working on the first show in August. I almost forgot this year, too.

Links in the artist’s names in the first hour of our playlist below will take you to a website where you can find our more about them and maybe buy their music(where possible). Check out the playlist…

RFC V5 186

hour one
Frenchy & The Punk “Midnight Garden”
Clownhole “Washed Up Has Been”
Messer Chups “Hard Times For Dracula”
Novo Comb “Tattoo”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Paradise”
Sierra Ferrell “Money Train”
The Hooterville Honeys “Wheeling, West Virginia”
The Settlement “Boogie/Days Go By”
Transvision Vamp “Velveteen”
Ian McLagen “La De La”

hour two
Melanie Larch/Diablo Blues Band “Please Come Home For Christmas”
Marium Bria “Naughty Christmas”
Frenchy and The Punk “All I Want For Christmas Is A Time Machine”
The Laser Beams “Up On The Rooftop”
The Bob Thompson Unit “Festival”
Charleston Gay Men’s Chorale “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
The Renfields “Merry Christmas To All”
Clownhole “Deck The Halls”
Prank Monkey “The Chipmunk Song”
Joseph Hale “Let’s Put The X in Xmas”
2012 Cast of “Mary” “Lord of Mercy”
Rowan Maher “Child, My Child”
Pepper Fandango and Lee Harrah “Baby It’s Cold Outside”
Todd Burge with Joseph Hale “Merry Methmas”

hour three
“Jam theme”-a special rendition of the Radio Free Charleston theme song, recorded at The Charleston Playhouse and featuring most of the Charleston Playhouse Quartet, with the addition of Stephen Beckner, who provides a wintery spoken interlude.
A 1989 commercial for Budget Tapes & Records where your PopCulteer provides all three voices, including the ghost of Bing Crosby.
Go Van Gogh “Santa Claus Is Back In Town”
Stephen Beckner and John and Tim Rock from Go van Gogh, live interview in the studio.
Go Van Gogh attempts at Christmas carols
Three Bodies (Kris Cormany, Brian Young, Brian Lucas) live interview in the studio
Three Bodies “Three Bodies”
“Why Do We Have To Work Skit”
Clownhole (Sham Voodoo, Flair) Christmas message with the accapella punk “Deck The Halls”
Charleston Playhouse Jam Session “Jingle Bells”
Plugs for “The Last Ride,” the final concert by Brian Diller and the Ride, which happened one week after this show first aired.
Mad Scientist Club “I Saw Santa Claus”
Gary Price Christmas wishes from The Swivels
Charleston Playhouse Jam Session interview with John McIntyre leading into “Heaven and Mud/Train Wreck The Halls/Will The Circle Be Unbroken”
Gary Price from The Swivels, pre-taped interview in the production studio
Clownhole in the studio, rambling semi-interview
Go Van Gogh in the studio, going off the rails a bit.
Go Van Gogh “Big Bottom (accapella)”–this was considered appropriate for the holiday for some reason
Melanie Larch “Ave Maria”
Melanie Larch and Mark Scarpelli “Christmas Time Is Here”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight,  Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

 

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM we give you an encore of two classic episodes of The Swing Shift. New episodes will return in a week or two.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.