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Join me for The Early Years where you'll enjoy the best variety of music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades including music from before the rock era.
Before telling you about this week's show, I'd like to thank Bruce Toews for filling in last week while I was travelling. I was expecting to replay a show from two years ago but was pleasantly surprised when Bruce told me he could do the show after all. I very much appreciate him doing it and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

At the time I’m usually on the air, I’ll be in the air, heading back from the Blind Citizens Australia convention. That means it’s time to delve into the humungonormous Mosen Explosion archives for a replay of a popular show.

This time, a few listeners have requested to hear again the documentary I put together on the legendary music producer Sir George Martin. It was first aired just after his death in March 2016.

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.

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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 7pm Saturday in NZ, or 5pm in Sydney, and repeated every four hours throughout the day , it’s the described movie Grease from 1978.

Directed by: Randal Kleiser.

Produced by: Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr.

Screenplay by: Bronte Woodard.

Based on: Grease, by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

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.

I’m back in New Zealand for a short time before my next overseas trip, long enough to bring you another live edition of the Mosen Explosion on Mushroom FM.

Yes, as I am battling a cold this week which is robbing me of focus if not of my voice as yet, I thought I'd take the opportunity to replay a very special episode of Come by the Hills from September 16 of 2018. This was a tribute show dedicated to my friend Shannon Marie Smith, (may her memory be eternal,) who died on that date the year before.

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.

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.

Join me for The Early Years where you'll enjoy the best variety of music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades including music from before the rock era.
Tonight, I'll continue my listener-suggested theme, songs with numbers in their titles. I'll start by revisiting numbers three and nine, thanks to your suggestions, then pick up where I left off at number fifty and continue to number ninety-nine. You'll hear some songs you haven't heard in a long time if ever.