Your humble blogger is back from Winterfest and that means we are back to what passes for normal. Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have new episodes of  Radio Free Charleston and The Swing Shift for you. 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 boatloads of replays throughout the week.

This week RFC kicks off with almost two hours of our usual mix of local, independent and free-format music, and then a bit more than our third hour recreates an Alternative Rock sampler from 1989 that was heavily played on the original broadcst version of RFC. .

We open with a new tune from Sgt. Van, who I just got to see a couple of days ago at GI Joe Winterfest, and we continue with new music from Falling Stars, Novo Combo, Emmaline, The Polkamaniacs, Rob Moore, The Subjunctives, The Settlement and more.

Our third hour starts about ten minutes early so I can bring you every song from HITS Magazine’s Night of the Living Post Modern CD sampler from 1989. I tell you a little bit about how I had to do RFC back when we were on broadcast radio over 35 years ago, and why CD samplers were like manna from Heaven.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show where possible, except in the third hour because I’m lazy…

RFC V5 211

hour one
Sgt. Van and The Highway Dogs “Night Owl”
Falling Stars “Waiting For Love”
Novo Combo“It’s Only Temporary”
Emmaline “Soft Spot”
Massing “Flattery (Rejuiced)”
The Polkamaniacs“The Edgar Allen Poe-ka(Death Deluxe Remix)”
Rob Moore “Chicago Dog”
The Subjunctives “It’s A Shame We Didn’t Get More Time, Lance”
Government Cheese “Single”
Clownhole “Aqua”
Red Audio “Girl From Outer Space”
Unmanned “Arrested”
The Dollyrots “5+5”
Jay Parade  “Hearts And Minds”
63 Eyes “The Cellular Cellar”

hour two
Tony Levin “Turn It Over”
The Settlement “Rainbow”
Mogwai “Fact Boy”
Marillion “Forgotten Sons”
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel “Red is a Mean, Mean Color”

third hour
Depeche Mode “Everything Counts (Live)”
Pere Ubu “Waiting For Mary”
Godfathers “She Gives Me Love”
Love & Rockets “So Alive”
24-7 Spyz “Jungle Boogie”
John Moore & The Expressway “Out Of My Mind”
Xymox “Obsession”
New Model Army “Stupid Questions”
Concrete Blonde “God Is A Bullet”
Human Drama “The Waiting Hour”
Renegade Soundwave “Biting My Nails”
Tom Tom Club “Suboceana”
Third World “Forbidden Love”
Indio “Hard Sun”
The Wonderstuff “A Wish Away”
Rainmakers “Reckoning Day

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 offer up a new episode of The Swing Shift that pays tribute to Chick Webb, an overlooked Titan of Big Band Swing, who sadly, passed away young and does not get his due. In addition to discovering a teenaged Ella Fitzgerald, he led an orchestra that was on the same level as Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Count Basie.

This week’s show reminds the world how great his band was.

Check out the playlist…

The Swing Shift 167

Chick Webb and his Orchestra, with Ella Fitzgerald

“Heebie Jeebies”
“Blues In My Heart”
“On The Sunny Side of the Street”
“Darktown Strutter’s Ball”
“I Can’t Dance, I Got Ants In My Pants”
“Stompin’ At The Savoy”
“Blue Minor”
“Lonesome Moments”
“That Rhythm Man”
“Down Home Rag”
“A Tisket A Tasket”
“Harlem Congo”
“Pack Up Your Sins and Go To The Devil”
“Spinning the Webb”
“Ella”
“Wacky Dust”
“FDR Jones”
“I Found My Yellow Basket”
“‘Tain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That Cha Do it)”
“Clap Hands, Here Comes Charly”

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 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 Thursdays and Sundays.