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This Week's Theme: Most Wonderful Time Of The Year This year's four-part holiday-themed Faux Show series wraps up with a selection of traditional holiday songs. This mix of carols, hymns, and standards presents what most people consider the music of the holidays. As always, the songs span across different genres and decades. If you are … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 46 (December 18, 2022): Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
This Week's Theme: Santa Claus Keeps Coming To Town Part three of this four-part, holiday-themed Faux Show series includes forty-two different versions of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" by forty-two different artists. Every year at the Faux household, we select one holiday standard and make a massive playlist of as many versions as we … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 45 (December 11, 2022): Santa Claus Keeps Coming To Town
This Week's Theme: Happy Holidays As I wrote one year ago for the 2021 Happy Holidays Faux Show: Part two of this four-part, holiday-themed Faux Show series is focused on songs that aren't part of the holiday canon, but are full of holiday spirit. Unlike last week's show, this week's songs are clearly identifiable as … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 44 (December 4, 2022): Happy Holidays
This Week's Theme: Merry Xmas We have a tradition at the Faux household that requires a little bit of explanation. Before we met, Ms. Faux spent every holiday season singing - performing in small groups, choirs, churches, and public venues. She started as a child and continued to sing into her adulthood. Although I can't … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 43 (November 27, 2022): Merry Xmas
This Week's Theme: First of October With this week's show, I have now made the First of October an annual Faux Show theme. To be clear, this is not a show released on October 1 but is a show inspired by the group First of October. The basic concept is to focus the show on … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 42 (November 13, 2022): First of October
This Week's Theme: Female Artists From A To Z Special Note: Sometimes, time is precious. For that reason, I have recently devoted most of my time to personal tasks that are not writing this blog. In addition, I am starting to plan for a slew of end of year Holiday and Best Of The Year … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 41 (November 6, 2022): Female Artists From A To Z
This Week's Theme: Songs I Recently Heard On The Radio The original concept of the Radio Faux Show originated from my desire to produce a weekly radio show like those I worked as a deejay at a college radio station decades ago. This week’s show is focused on the opposite side of the concept. That … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 40 (October 30, 2022): Songs I Recently Heard On The Radio
This Week's Theme: Halloween This week's show is all about Halloween. Trick or treat. Welcome to Radio Faux Show Volume 2, number thirty-nine. First things first – click a link to start listening and then come back to read about this week’s songs. Spotify Amazon Music You can read and listen to last year's Halloween … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 39 (October 23, 2022): Halloween
After compiling all of the recordings I could find from the National Recording Registry into one massive playlist, it seems silly not to share it. Here is The (As Complete As I Could Make It) Complete National Recording Registry Collection.
This Week's Theme: The National Recording Registry Part Four (My Selections) This week’s show is the final entry of a four-part series on the National Recording Registry. The first three parts focused on selections in the Registry from before 1955, selections from 1955 to the present, and my personal favorite Top 25 albums that have … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 38 (October 16, 2022): The National Recording Registry Part Four (My Selections)
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