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On Wednesday December 4, we’re celebrating 60 years since the release of Beatles for sale, the Beatles’ fourth studio album. The Mosen Explosion will feature every track from the album along with interesting anecdotes about the stories behind the songs and how they were recorded. We’ll also feature some other material that was recorded during these sessions but didn’t end up on the album, including one very famous Beatles single with an intro everyone recognizes the moment it starts.

This week on Deep Dive we enjoy the outstanding talents of American Girl Band the Pointer Sisters. We get excited, learn that he's so shy, and enjoy a lover with a slow hand.

Tune in at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 8 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Wednesday, which is 10 PM in Eastern Australia. It's easy! Just tell that SmartSpeaker of yours to play Mushroom FM, and you will be there in a jiffy, whatever measure of time that is.

Hello! Sara Hillis popping in to tell you about this week's episode of Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's Folk and celtic music show! I'm starting the run-up to Christmas with a few of my favourite festive tunes, I'll have a few summer-related songs to celebrate the changing of the seasons in the southern hemisphere, and of course I'll be talking (a lot) about our annual holiday countdown, which is coming up on December 22nd. I'll tell you how you can participate and I'll even give you a challenge! I hope you'll have fun!

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
spam)

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.