Jan 2 2010

Saturday January 2, 2010: A decade ago on Folk Plus

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Thanks to staff and station management for accommodating my health issues and maintaining a chemical and fragrance free environment. Complying with these accommodations allow me to continue to volunteer Saturday mornings.

1. Pat Humphries - Another New Year 337 - Hands - Appleseed

"Planning all the things we'll do"

Looking back a decade to what I played new years day of January 2000.
Here, not all of them and not in the same order, are some of the cuts that aired on the first Folk Plus a decade ago.

2. David Roth - This is the Year 255 Nights at the Chez - RothDM@aol.com http://www.songs.com/dr
"..that I follow my passion, this is the year of my dreams"

3. Annie Gallup - Anything is Possible 356
Courage My Love - 1 800 PRIME CD
"hold me like it was the first time, or like it was the last"

4. Artisan - Hold on to your Dreams 243
    Our Back Yard - http://www.artifact.demon.co.uk
    artisan@artifact.demon.co.uk
    "hold on to your dreams, fly them high though it seems, you are tethered and bound"
    "turn your thoughts to the history ahead"

5. Darryl Purpose - Last Great Kiss of the 20th Century 517
Travelers' Code - http://www.songs.com/dp dp@songs.com
"Sometimes we let these things slip through our fingers, sometimes not"

6. Camille West - Raptured 2000 402
Diva's Day Off - http://www.songs.com/camille scottwod@wizvax.net
Mother Tongue Music POBox 4299 Queensbury NY 12804

7. Andy Breckman (Christine Lavin) - The World is Coming to an End 118
      Big League Babe Christine Lavin Tribute Album, Pt. 2
      http://www.primecd.com mail@primecd.com
       Andy says it is her best song, "I don't know why she bothered with the others"

8. Judith Zweiman (Christine Lavin) - Biological Time Bomb 224
       Big League Babe Christine Lavin Tribute Album, Pt 1
       http://www.primecd.com mail@primecd.com
       "Listen girls!" time is slipping by

9. Hugh Blumenfeld - 30th Birthday Party 525
     Barehanded - http://www.primecd.com h2jukebox@EARTHLINK.NET
        "can't you feel the weight of time"
        "do you have to live forever, with forever at your back, get up and love me while you can"

10. Joan Baez/Jeffrey Shurtleff (Willie Nelson) - One Day at a Time
     One Day at a Time - '69 Vanguard 79310
     "I live one day at a time, I dream one dream at a time"

For people who were celebrating and up all night:

11. Wiggin Sisters - Good Night's Sleep 342 fade
Wiggin Sisters - Wigsis@aol.com
"all I want to do is get a good night's sleep"

12. Lucy Kaplanski (Brian Rose) - Open All Night 309
       Fast Folk Musical Magazine - SE 107 August '82
       "Come on home with me baby, I'm open all night"

13. Debbie Smith - Sleep 217
      More Than Once - http://www.shanachie.com/debi
      "Its a nice party but I'm going home....the only date I have is with the sandman tonight"

14. Carla Sciaky - Insomnia Blues 330
       Awakening - Green Linnet 1 800 468 6644
       43 Beaver Brook Rd, Danbury, CT 06810
       "now I lay me down to weep"

Isn't it ironic that as kids we try to avoid sleep, and as adults we can't seem to get enough.

15. . Rosenshontz - Sleep 310
Lightyear Entertainment 350 5th Ave Suite 5101 NYC 10118
all the excuses...I'm thristy, scared, it's too light, too dark, you owe me allowance

16. Richard Meyer - Century's End
       A Letter to the Open Sky - http://www.shanachie.com
      "I may be the last one who can say I rode the trains"
       "memory's dying at century's end"

The last song is a reminder of war and the next group of songs that were played a decade ago were hopeful for a world of peace.
In 2000 I'd been teaching for over two decades, and I polled some middle school kids for their wishes for the millennium.

. Wishes from Children in the WJFF listening area
     -"that people will stop smoking cigarettes"
     -"that there will be a cure for HIV, aids and cancer"
     -"that we can save the environment"
     -"that we save more wildlife"
     -"that there be an end to nuclear war"
     -"a wish for world peace"

17. Red Grammer - Listen
       Teaching Peace - http://www.redgrammer.com
       Red Note Records 5049 Orangeport Rd Brewerton NY 13029
       "everywhere around the world a heartbeat sounds the same"

   10 years ago I played I played Ed McCurdy's - Last Night I had the Strangest Dream from Penny Lang's release
       Live at the Yellow Door - But the cd case was empty, so instead I played

18. Chad Mitchell trio - Last night I had the strangest dream
       At the bitter end - Folk Era
      "I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end ot war"
      J . Denver replaced Chad Mitchell in the trio in '65, so this turned out to be a serendipitous swith

19. John Denver (Lascelles) - The Box
Poems, Prayers and Promises - RCA Victor
"No one seems to want to save the children anymore"

20. James Keelaghan - Recent Future
       A Recent Future - Green Linnet - http://www.keelaghan.com
       "the future is skethy, tho its close its never here
              ... there is no will be there's just was"

21. Dick Gaughin - Different Kind of Love Song
       A Different Kind of Love Song - Folk Freak
        Bergstrasse 28 D-3401 Ebergotzen       Tel 0 5507 / 846
       "I'll keep trying to make people happy...in the best way I know how"
       "To make the most people happy I must make you more sad and angry now"

22. Herdman, Hills, Mangsen (Eileen McGann) - Requim for the Trees
Voices - Flying Fish http://www.rounder.com
There are some trees older than our millennium

THis ends the section of what was aired on Folk Plus a decade ago.
Next are two cuts from two new releases which are storytelling and music.....

23. Christine Lavin - Reading from Chapter Two of Cold Pizza for Breafast: A Mem-wha?
Cold Pizza for Breakfast - Yellow Tail
Being published this year is a new book by Christine Lavin called Cold Pizza for Breafast: A Mem-wha? Here she is reading from chapter two [17:26}

24. John McCutcheon - Survivor - (Seeger) Well May the World Go 10:33 -
Untold [Storytelling and Music] - Appalseed www.folkmusic.com

Happy New Year

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Thanks to staff and station management for accommodating my health issues and maintaining a chemical and fragrance free environment. Complying with these accommodations allow me to continue to volunteer Saturday mornings