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Greetings! Once again, it's time for our annual Stan Rogers special on Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show. This year is especially poignant, as we've reached another milestone since his death on June 2nd, 1983, as this year marks the 40th anniversary of that sudden and sad event. So, in true Canadian folky fashion, we will be playing three hours of Stan's music with exerpts from a documentary called "One Warm Line: The Legacy of Stan Rogers." We'll also have a radio play that he worked on for the CBC as part of the show.

After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, 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.

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From 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 Rocky from 1976, and Rocky II from 1979.
Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
It is the first instalment in the Rocky franchise and stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith.

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.
Raise your glasses as we toast Rhythm & Booze: Wine! Wine! Wine! on this week's "Juke In The Back."

This week on Deep Dive we celebrate the life and music of Tina Turner who died this week. We do so in an encore show which I made three years ago. We hear about Nutbush City Limits, river deep mountain high and proud mary.

Tune in at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 6 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, which is 8 PM in Eastern Australia. Approach that SmartSpeaker of yours and demand that it play Mushroom FM and you l be there in the blink of an eye.

This weekend is the unofficial start of summer in the US. In honor of this, and also because my husband and I, and my sister and brother-in-law had anniversaries in May, and my brother and sister-in-law have their 30th anniversary in mid June, I play songs you hear at weddings. You will hear the four songs Mark and I had at our own wedding, along with listener requests, and the one song I believe should never be played at a wedding or wedding dance because, though its title sounds wedding-like, the lyrics certainly are not! Next week we will hear songs with the word "angel" in them.

Perhaps some of you will recognize the origin of the subject, from one of the great North American radio formats of the late '60s and early '70s.
After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, 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.

Only on Mushroom escape:
http://www.mushroomfm.com/escape
From 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 Total Recall from 1990, and Pale Rider from 1985.
Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, with a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, and Gary Goldman.

We hope you enjoyed hearing the Elvis Presley Story over the last 13 weeks.

Our rockumentaries continue this weekend with a two parter we haven't aired before.

In the History of Psychedelia, DAVID QUANTICK presents a 2-part documentary examining the changing face of psychedelic music, from the swirling shapes and sounds of the sixties to the retro-pop of the early nineties and today's eclectic dance scene.

You can hear this fascinating, and of course trippy musical history first at 2 PM Eastern on Sunday. It's repeated at 11 PM that evening.

On Thursday at 2 AM Eastern and repeated again at 2 Pm Eastern, join me for a tribute to Tina Turner, who has died aged 83. Her influence is immense. She paved the way for women in rock and roll. She overcame adversity and abuse to blossom as a solo artist. Most of all, she contributed to the soundtrack of our lives.

Learn about her humble beginnings and the upheaval in her early life, how she met Ike, how she got the name Tina Turner, the perception that she had become a nostalgia act after the couple divorced, and her incredible ascendancy as a solo artist in the 1980s.