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Hark and hallelujah! Mushroom FM's fantastic festal fungal frenzy is back for another year! Yes, it's time once again to cast your vote in our 2024 holiday countdown! Simply pick ten of your favourite songs of the season using our accessible online form. Your choices will then be sent through our fancy-schmancy algorithm for ranking. The higher you rank a song, the more points you give it, and the higher the chance that it could win the coveted top spot! You can either pick from our ever-expanding database or type in the titles yourself.

After you've enjoyed Decades in HD with PJ Noce tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac, smart speaker or tablet and join me for The Early Years, where and when you'll hear the best music from the first quarter century of Rock with occasional nods to other decades and genres.
The top 100 of 1964 continues this week with an interruption in hour 2 to remember my brother, Bruce, who died four years ago tomorrow at the age of 67. I'll play six songs between 1958 and 1968 that he always liked.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Last Train to Christmas, from 2021, Scrooged from 1988, and Father Christmas from 1991.
Any questions, comments, or ideas for future described movies: e-mail me: anthony at mushroomfm dot com (e-mail address written that way to cut down on
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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.
Bandleader, pianist, composer and sometimes vocalist Buddy Johnson and his chanteuse sister Ella are in the spotlight on this week's "Juke In The Back."
Johnson was a superstar and one of the hottest live acts of the 1940s in the Black Community, but he barely made a dent with White audiences, though a few of his records actually did cross over into the Pop Chart.

This week on Deep Dive we pay tribute to the old story-teller, American singer and song writer Tom T. Hall. We meet the poet and the cow boy, visit the old side of town, and like beer.

Tune in at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 8 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, which is 10 PM in Eastern Australia. Simply holler to that SmartSpeaker of yours to play Mushroom FM and you will be there quicker than you can spot sneaky snake.

Hello! Sara Hillis here once again to let you know that I've got a rather eclectic three hours of Folk and celtic music for you this week on Come by the Hills! We'll play the eighteen-minute awesomeness that is Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie in honour of the reluctant heroine of the song, Alice Brock, who died at the age of eighty-three just a week before American Thanksgiving. This is rather poetic, given the plot of the song. But that's not all!

If you love music from the ’80s, join me every Sunday at 2 PM US Eastern for The All ’80s Show on Mushroom FM!

You’ll hear all your favorite ’80s hits, along with fascinating tidbits and snippets of info about the songs and the artists.

If you’re a fan of the ‘80s, you definitely won’t want to miss it! Let’s hang out together and enjoy an hour of the music you know and love.

Feel free to email me at gary@mushroomfm.com with your requests or just to say hi.

After you've enjoyed Decades in HD with PJ Noce tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac, smart speaker or tablet and join me for The Early Years, where and when you'll hear the best music from the first quarter century of Rock with occasional nods to other decades and genres.
The top 100 of 1964 continues this week with brief interruptions in both hours for a birthday celebration. My friend of more than 56 years, John, celebrates a milestone birthday tomorrow, the same one I celebrated in late October.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Stardust from 2007, and Goodbye Christopher Robin from 2017.
Any questions, comments, or ideas for future described movies: e-mail me: anthony at mushroomfm dot com (e-mail address written that way to cut down on
spam)
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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.
Last week, the "Juke In The Back" featured every recording made by the innovative BO DIDDLEY during the year 1955. This week, the Juke picks it up in early 1956 and showcases BO DIDDLEY's influential and diverse releases through 1959.