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Join Jonathan, Bonnie and the bananas for a Mosen Family Christmas

On Mushroom FM, we always enjoy bringing you a selection of festive fun at this time of year. You can check out our full Christmas line-up on the schedule page on our website.

Review our top 100 holiday chart for 2023 as determined by you

The fun guys thank you, not just for voting so we could assemble our top 100 countdown of holiday songs, but for sharing a little Christmas spirit across the globe by joining in our Christmas party on 16 December. Countdowns are commonplace, but the global sense of togetherness we generate via social media that has become the hallmark of Mushroom FM events is very special. We are honoured that people make a point of making our parties an annual event they can't possibly miss.

Our holiday countdown and Christmas party is on at 7 AM Eastern, noon in the UK. Here's all you need to know

You’ve made the list, we have of course checked it twice. We’ve included a wide variety of musical styles to keep it interesting. We’ve even plugged in our microphones and said, “tap tap tap, testing one two, one two, is this thing on?” Now, we are ready to play the top 100 holiday songs of all time as determined by the Mushroom Crowd in 2023.

The countdown to the Countdown. Making a list and checking it twice. How we rank and count your votes

Voting closes in Mushroom Fm's holiday countdown and Christmas party this Thursday at 11:59 PM North American Eastern time. If you haven't voted yet, it's an accessible process that won't take you too long. Visit https://MushroomFM.com/countdown2023 and be sure that your friends and family do too.

Time's rapidly running out for you, your family and friends to vote in our holiday countdown

There’s still time to vote in Mushroom FM’s holiday countdown and to receive an invitation to our Christmas party. But time is running out rapidly with votes closing this Thursday at 11:59 PM North American Eastern Time.

It's that time again! Voting is open for Mushroom FM's 2023 holiday countdown and Christmas party. Vote today

Hi everyone and merry Christmas!

Boy, have I got an incredible combination for you! Exercising your hard-won right to vote, holiday music and partying! Yes, our countdown is back for yet another year, due to popular demand. It's tradition, you know.

Mushroom FM runs a really fun tradition every year where we ask listeners to vote for their top 10 holiday songs, and we play the top 100 as tabulated by a fancy algorithm.

Starting this weekend, the original rockumentary, "The History of Rock and Roll"

Following our very popular look at offshore radio, starting this weekend we begin bringing you the original rockumentary. It’s “The History of Rock and Roll”.
Three versions of this series were produced, in 1969, 1978, and 1981. We’ve played you one of the later versions some years ago, but over the next year, we’re bringing you the original from 1969, narrated by Humble Harve Miller.

If you want to go deep into the roots of rock and roll, this is the version of the documentary you want to hear and it’s programming you won’t want to miss.

We're celebrating the 60th anniversary of "With the Beatles" on the Mosen Explosion

Understandably, when people think of 22 November 1963, most people immediately think of the assassination of President Kennedy. On the other side of the Atlantic, a band that was still little-known in the United States but which had Britain in the grip of an unprecedented mania, released their much-anticipated second album. It will be 60 years ago on Wednesday 22 November that the “With the Beatles ” album was released.

I’ll be devoting the Mosen Explosion slot to a celebration of the album. Learn about each song, who wrote it, how it was written and recorded.

As Jonathan fills in for Melissa, the song remembers when, and the story does too

It’s Jonathan Mosen, taking on the daunting task of filling in for the venerable melissa Riccobono this week on the Song Remembers When.

Our look at offshore radio concludes with the jingles

Over the last five and a half months, we’ve brought you one of the most comprehensive examinations of offshore radio ever broadcast. This is been very popular and we are glad so many people have enjoyed it.

This series concludes this week, with legendary British broadcaster Keith Skues examining offshore radio jingles, and playing plenty of them. While jingles were a well-established element in North American commercial radio, they weren’t regularly used in Europe until the offshore era.

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