On Wednesday The AIR brings you great new episodes of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast that are bright and shiny and have that new car smell.  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 is inspired by the photos of the cast of Sam Mendes’ upcoming movies based on The Beatles to bring you, for the third time, very Beatlesque music that is NOT by The Beatles.

I saw the photos, and my first thought was, “That’s not The Beatles,” and then I remembered that I do this on the show from time to time.

Seriously, one guy is way taller than the others. The guy playing Paul looks way more like John. The guy playing Ringo appears to be Asian, but I could be wrong on that. And the guy playing George is an uncanny doppleganger…for Mark Zuckerberg.

The movies might be good, but they placed an obstacle in the way of that with this cast. Along the lines of who they’ve cast, I figure we might see Dave Bautista as Brian Epstein, Ricky Gervais as George Martin and Matt Berry as The Maharishi.

Actually, I’d sort of like to see Matt Berry as The Maharishi.

Anyway, these songs sound more like The Beatles than the actors look like them.

Check out the playlist…

Beatles Blast 119
Not The Beatles III

Famous Groupies “Apple Obscura/Feels of Fire”
The Analogues “Magnetic Fields”
The Rutles “Good Times Roll”
Vinyl Kings “Change Is”
Dukes of Stratosphear “Collideascope”
The Analogues “Damned If You Do”
Utopia “Everybody Else Is Wrong”
Vinyl Kings “Give It Away”
The Rutles “Shangri La”
Famous Groupies “Flight of Europa”
The Rutles “Don’t Know Why”
Vinyl Kings “Long Way Down”
Famous Groupies “Penny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
The Analogues “Still Waiting”
The Rutles “Piggy In The Middle”

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 presents a mixtape salute to Richard Chamberliin, who passed away over the weekend.

Though he’s known more for his work in straight drama, Chamberlin was an accomplished singer who recorded several albums and appeared in musicals on stage and screen.  Mel brings you an assortment of his album tracks, plus tunes from a rare tribute to Irving Berlin and songs from the feature film musical, The Slipper and The Rose.

Curtain Call 154

Richard Chamberlin

“Try To Remember”
“Hush-Hush, Sweet Charlotte”
“You Always Hurt The One You Love”
“Rome Will Never Leave You”
“Love Makes The World Go ‘Round”
“Lonely Heart”
“Why Can’t I Be Two People”
“Fools Fall In Love”
“What A Comforting Thing to Know”
“It’s A Lonesome Old Town (When You’re Not Around)”
“True Love”
“A Bride Findinig Ball”
“How’s The Chances”
“I’ll Be Around”
“Secret Kingdom”
“He/She Danced With Me”
“A Kiss To Build A Dream On”
“Secret Kingdom (Reprise)”
“I’m Getting Tired So I Can Sleep”
“Blue Guitar”
“Theme From Dr. Kildaire”

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, Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM. A marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday morning and afternoon starting at 9 AM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Also on The AIR, Wednesday at 11 PM,  The Comedy Vault brings you a brand-new episode featuring the second of multiple installments of Viv Stanshall’s “Rawlinson’s End.”