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What a blast it was to receive such a positive response to last week’s show which celebrated the great Tom Lehrer’s 89th birthday. And yes, I use the word “blast” in the context of this promo most deliberately! It’s nice to know so many of the Mushroom Crowd appreciates his irreverent humour and wit, along with his musical and literary genius.

One of the songs we played on last week’s show is an old favourite of mine, a song about nuclear annihilation done in the style of a rousing gospel hymn, called “We will all go together when we go”.

This Saturday evening, on SnowWhiteFM, it is Easter Eve, and we're celebrating the occasion.

If you’ve been listening to the Shed over the last three weeks, either live or via the replay, you’ll be aware of a discussion we’ve been having.
We’ve been talking about songs with people’s names in the title.
Things like, ‘The Wind cries Mary’ or ‘Daniel’, just to name a couple.
As promised, from 11pm Eastern tonight, that 4am Sunday in the UK and 3Pm Sunday here in good old New Zealand, we will be featuring songs with people’s names somewhere in the title.

One of my favourite satirists and comedians of all time, Tom Lehrer, blows out 89 candles on the 9th of April.

Tom Lehrer wrote songs when it interested him, and didn’t when it didn’t. This means that his total body of work is small, but the quality is absolutely superb.

Come By The Hills is coming your way again this week with three more hours of the best in Celtic music from around the world. We'll have a good selection of jigs and reels, a balad or two, an amazing Celtic harp experience, and a "Celtic Cover" which is recycled but which is no less interesting for that.

So if it's Celtic music you crave, tune into Mushroom FM on Sunday night at 8:00 PM Eastern for Come By The Hills! The show is replayed every week on Friday morning at 4:00 AM Eastern, 9:00 AM in the UK and Ireland.

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.

Something’s cooking on this week’s “A Cuppa at the Mosens” Thursday 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. EST on www.mushroomfm.com and in all your fav music apps. A few weeks ago, we discussed keeping house—hiring cleaners, doing your own cleaning etc. This show’s focus is on another aspect of domestic bliss, cooking. Whether you are a gourmet chef or can barely boil water, we want to hear your kitchen celebrations and catastrophes.

When you hear the dying strains of Van Halen's Happy Trails signalling the end of The Mosen Explosion for another week, don't touch your PC, your mobile device or your internet radio and join me in The Early Years on Mushroom FM.
Hello, I'm Steve Cutway inviting you to enjoy two hours of the best music from the 50s and 60s. I'll have my regular features including a tripple play that combines a same title different song with an artist twin spin. There will be lots of chart information and reminiscences.

I tell you, it’s no wonder this crazy world in which we live is so full of earthquakes, floods, climate change, and despicable soup of all flavours. We bring it on ourselves by messing on such a regular basis with the elemental forces of time.