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Whereas, Mushroom FM is an Internet radio station providing content primarily featuring music from the 1950s through to the 1980s; and

Whereas, individuals presenting radio shows on the station are colloquially known as “fun guys”; and

Whereas, the quality of the presentations of all but one of the “fun guys” is favourably commented upon by many; and

Hello Listeners

It will soon be time to join me, Anne Cosgrove for another edition of Only the 80s on www.mushroomfm.com at 4 pm eastern, 9 pm in the UK. This show is not live this week but most of your features can be heard, these include:

12 Inch Mixes – We play one or two of these popular records throughout the show
Bargain Bucket B-sides – This week we are going back to 1980 and 1987 for these
The Charts – We take a look at the UK and the US Billboard Charts each week, we will be focusing on 1982

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.

What do you think of when you think of novelty? Weird Al; Tom Lehrer; The Goons; The Barron Knites; Bob Newhart; The Royal Canadian Air Farce; people like that, right? Sure, these people and groups are all known for their comedy, and rightly so. But what about Van Halen? Cliff Richard? Paul Young? Jim Reeves? When have you ever seen comedy records from these people?

This is it.

The Thirteenth episode of Season One of the Richter Scale.
This is the episode where we will find the answers to the questions we've been asking ourselves all season.

"Which version of blinded by the light is the proper version?"
"Can you set rules about what a band can call themselves?"
"Will our hero survive?"

All this and more will be revealed in this, the final episode of this season of the Richter Scale.
Don't worry though, Season Two will be starting next week with all new features and music.

If you heard last week’s show, the first to use Zoom Cloud Meetings, you’ll know that technically, it was a huge success. If you haven’t learned yet about our new ways to participate in Mushroom FM’s live call-in show, check out the show’s web page, http://MushroomFM.com/cuppa.

Two weeks ago today, New Zealand yelled with delight and sighed with relief, as we finally won the America's Cup back. This yachting trophy is the oldest prize in world sport, dating back to 1851.

Now New Zealanders are turning out all over the country to see the team and the Cup.

We love a good America's Cup victory parade, and a challenging technical task. So we're combining them, as Mushroom FM seeks, for the first time, to bring you live coverage of an outdoor event, streaming to our servers directly from an iPhone over 4G.

When you hear the final chord and laughter from Van Halen's "Happy Trails" ending today's edition of The Mosen Explosion, stay tuned for The Early Years on Mushroom FM, the home of the fun guys.

Yes, it's time once again for another infusion of Celtic goodies to be squirted into your week! (Wasn't that a great image? Well, moving on...) I've got yet another Simple Single in "Me Music," a "Celtic Cover" that just popped out at me from nowhere, and some great tunes from Planxty in "Fiddlin' Around." As ever, if you tune in this week, you'll get three hours of high-quality music with a healthy dose of less-than-high-quality wit courtesy of yours truly.

The Mosen Explosion is back again, because, frankly, it’s so hard to get quality programming these days so what can we do?

It’s school holidays here in the Zealand of New, so if we can get either of the teenage bananas in residence awake in time, we may well here live banana updates. There is a lot of interesting banana news floating around at the moment.