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Month: August 2021
This Week's Theme: Television Show Theme Songs I am not ashamed to say that I watch a lot of television. There have been periods of my life when I didn't watch much at all, and other times when I probably watched too much, but there has always be a tv in my home. For this … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 26 (August 29, 2021): Television Show Theme Songs
This Week's Theme: Silver Anniversary, Music from 1996 I did not listen to much popular music in the early '90s. I spent several years in a deep dive into old R&B, with a focus on Ray Charles and jump blues artists like Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown, and Big Joe Turner. Then in 1996 I started … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 18 (July 4, 2021): Music from 1996
This Week's Theme: Around the World in 30 Songs Almost every Faux Show includes one of my favorite mini-themes, Let's Take a Trip Around the World. My fondest memories of my time as a deejay 30+ years ago include discovering music from other countries. From a purely musical perspective, the different instrumentation, rhythms, melodies, and … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 25 (August 22, 2021): Around the World in 30 Songs
This Week's Theme: Drummer Roger Hawkins From a completely musical point of view, if I could have lived the life of anyone in history then Roger Hawkins would be on my list. Hawkins was one of the original members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, aka The Swampers, and served as the main drummer for … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 14 (June 6, 2021): Drummer Roger Hawkins
This Week's Theme: Sparks Ms. Faux, Faux Jr., and I recently watched the new Edgar Wright documentary The Sparks Brothers, so the theme for this week's show has to be Sparks. I will admit that, although I have been an above average Sparks fan for a while now, I mainly listen to three albums - … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 24 (August 15, 2021): Sparks
Welcome to Radio Faux Show number nineteen. First things first – click a link to start listening and then come back to read about this week’s songs. Spotify Amazon Music This Week's Theme: '70s Singer/Songwriters I am certainly no expert in the history of song writing, but it seems to me that it is probably … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 19 (July 11, 2021): ’70s Singer/Songwriters
This Week's Theme: Artists from California This week's theme is a super theme because all of the songs have one thing in common. They are recorded by artists who were either born in or began their career in California. No matter the genre, CA can claim ownership of many of the most important artists throughout … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 23 (August 8, 2021): California Artists
This Week's Theme: Keyboardist Ralph Schuckett Chances are that you have never heard of Ralph Schuckett, and up until this week neither had I. But I've been listening to his keyboard playing all of my life without knowing it. He was a session player for a lot of artists, a founding member of Todd Rundgren's … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 6 (April 11, 2021): Ralph Schuckett
This Week's Theme: Songs that Peaked at # 40 on the Billboard Charts (Artists A - C) For this week's show we get to use the greatest reference book ever published, Joel Whitburn's Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. I know that the world has gone online for everything now, and I am not one … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 22 (August 1, 2021): Peaked at # 40 (A-C)
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