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First, a heartfelt thank you to Ryan Doran, who has brought us the popular Groove Line for some years. Unfortunately, ill-health has meant that Ryan has had to discontinue the show. We will miss him, and we are deeply grateful for his outstanding contribution to Mushroom FM. Thank you, Ryan, for the music, the company, and the time and care you have put into your programme. You take our warmest wishes with you.

It's Jonathan Mosen, and I'm excited about another of my Beatles specials.

On Friday, October 2, The Beatles release a brand-new Special Edition of Rubber Soul, and The Mosen Explosion marks the occasion with a two-hour celebration of one of the greatest albums ever made.

We're pleased to report that our outage is over, and our steam is once again pumping out the four decades of magic Mushroom memories for you. We look forward to you tuning back in.

The Mushroom Fm stream is experiencing an outage at present. We apologize for this, and appreciate your patience. Rest assured we get the issue resolved as soon as we possibly can.
Meanwhile, Mushroom Escape, our stream playing the best in radio drama and comedy, is unaffected, so do feel free to tune into that to experience the theater of the mind.

We have had a wonderful response to our special two-hour Mushroom FM tribute to Dolly Parton, and a number of listeners have asked us the same question: can we make the programme available on-demand, or offer it as a download?

We would love to, but unfortunately we can’t.

Because the programme contains a large number of Dolly’s recordings, the music licensing under which Mushroom FM operates allows us to broadcast the tribute as part of our regular stream, but does not permit us to make the complete programme available for on-demand listening or download.

Few performers have ever been quite as instantly recognisable as Dolly Parton.

There was the voice, of course. There were the songs — an extraordinary catalogue spanning country, pop, gospel and bluegrass. There was the wit, the warmth, the larger-than-life image and that remarkable ability to laugh at herself before anyone else got the chance.

But behind all of that was one of the finest songwriters popular music has produced, a formidable businesswoman, and a philanthropist whose generosity changed millions of lives.

Ten years ago, Mushroom FM made the biggest and best decision in its history.
We stopped trying to be all things to all people. We decided that when you tuned to Mushroom FM, you should have a pretty good idea what sort of music you were going to hear and, just as importantly, what sort of radio station you were going to hear.
And so began the format that has defined us ever since: music from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Four decades of magic Mushroom memories.

The next Mosen Explosion on Friday at 9 AM and again at 9 PM US Eastern time is a special one.
We'll open with a quick romp through other things that happened on this day in history, then we hand almost the whole two hours over to a genuine original: Stan Freberg, born 100 years ago on August 7, 1926.

Due to planned maintenance at the location of our Mushroompot computer, we expect Mushroom FM to be unavailable at some point within the next 12 hours. We cannot predict the time, nor the duration.
Note though that this does not affect Mushroom Escape. So why not tune in and enjoy some of the best in radio drama and comedy.,
Thanks for your understanding and ongoing support.

Thanks to Henry the wonder son-in-law in New Zealand, the Mushroom FM stream is back now.
We'll be playing a selection of music until One Hit Wonders with Dan resumes normal service at the top of the hour.