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Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know about what's coming up this week in just a few short hours on Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's Folk and Celtic music show! Today, as well as our usual mix of fun and interesting Folkish favourites, I will be paying tribute throughout the show to Donald McGeoch, a Brantford Ontario institution and a force to be reckoned with in the Folk scene there and roundabout. I first encountered his music on a lovely radio show on the CBC, the kind of show where people could send in tapes of artists they really liked and the presentor would play them.

After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, now in its 8th year on Mushroom FM, 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 half of the Rock and Roll era with nods to other decades and genres.
My month of encore presentations from this time in 2022 concludes this week.

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this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Pete’s Dragon from 1977, and The Greatest Showman from 2017.
Pete's Dragon is a 1977 American musical fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey, produced by Jerome Courtland and Ron Miller, and written by Malcolm Marmorstein.

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.
Willie Mabon scored 2 #1 R&B records with "I Don't Know" and "I'm Mad" in 1952 and '53 respectively. Having 2 #1s ensured that he would never be forgotten, BUT Matt The Cat believes that this piano playing, harp-blowin' blues cat should be better remembered and respected.

Following his death last weekend, Deep Dive celebrates the life and songs of American singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffet. We eat cheeseburgers in paradise, enjoy grapefruit juicy fruit, and come Monday.

Join me at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 6 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, 8 PM in Eastern Australia. Just tell that SmartSpeaker of yours to play Mushroom FM and you will be there in a trice.

Deep Dive, where we focus on one artist for one hour, is heard exclusively on Mushroom FM, home of the fun guys.

Greetings! Sara Hillis here to let you know that this week, we're giving you an encore presentation of our Stan Rogers special from June 3 of this year on Come by the Hills. I hope you'll enjoy it, whether you heard it back in June or are hearing it for the first time.

Catch Come by the Hills on Saturday at 2:00 PM Eastern, or check out the replay on Tuesday at 5:00 AM Eastern. However and whenever you listen, enjoy, and I'll be back with a new show next week.

After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, now in its 8th year on Mushroom FM, 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 half of the Rock and Roll era with nods to other decades and genres.
My month of encore presentations from this time in 2022 continues this week.

Only on Mushroom escape:
http://www.mushroomfm.com/escape
this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales from 2017 and Blended from 2014.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (released internationally as Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge) is a 2017 American swashbuckler fantasy film directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.

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.
Matt The Cat presents another highly underrated R&B vocal group from the 1950s: The Du-Droppers. They didn't sound like the stereotypical "doo wop" groups of the era and they weren't your standard rhythm group either. The Du-Droppers had a sound that was all their own.

Currently in our rockumentary slot, we're running a series a documentaries about offshore pirate radio, and it's proving popular with listeners. We're so glad you're enjoying it.

This weekend, having completed our look at Radio London, we begin the Radio England story. Backed by some of the Texans who originally invested in Radio London, many of the existing operators were concerned about what Radio England and Britain Radio's arrival would mean in 1966. While giving some British broadcasters their first opportunity, it failed to challenge the major stations on the air.