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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.
This week, the “Juke In The Back” begins a four part feature on the early musical career of the great, Ray Charles, which will cover 1948-58.

It’s Jonathan Mosen here to tell you about the wonderful songs and stories we have for you this week on Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family, only on Mushroom Escape.

After you've enjoyed Sara Hillis's look at the latest Joni Mitchell archives release on Come By The Hills, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 to 05:00, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac or smart speaker and join me in The Early Years where and when you'll hear the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.

Finally, the waiting is over! Volume 2 of the Joni Mitchell Archives has now been released, and as we did last year on Come by the Hills with Volume 1, we'll be dipping into this five-disk collection of live rarities, studio recordings and other bits and pieces which covers the years 1968-1971. We'll go to Le Hibou Coffeehouse in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on March 19, 1968, for a set recorded by none other than Jimi Hendrix himself, in an effort to test out his new reel-to-reel tape recorder.

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 The Bells of St. Mary's from 1945, The Waterboy from 1998 and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving from 1973.
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) is an American drama film, produced and directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.

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.
This week, the “Juke In The Back” begins a four part feature on the early musical career of the great, Ray Charles, which will cover 1948-58.

This week on deep dive we enjoy the talents of US singer Wayne Newton. We remember when we buy red roses for a blue lady, and think about some Sunday morning.

Tune in for deep dive at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is now 8 AM on Tuesday in eastern Australia or at 6 AM Wednesday, now 10 PM in eastern Australia. Just tell your smart speaker of your choice to play Mushroom FM and you will be there.

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.
This week, the “Juke In The Back” celebrates show #600 with a unique program designed to put the listener in a front row seat for a live rhythm review performance.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to announce another blast from the Come by the Hills past! This time, it's the Remembrance Day episode originally aired on Sunday, November 8, 2020. This means that you'll have some outdated promos and such, but I was listening to it earlier in the week and thought: why re-invent the wheel? I found it a really good episode, and I hope you will too, even if it is an encore presentation.

Mushroom FM keeps North American Eastern time, where clocks are falling back on Sunday morning. If your clocks are also falling back this weekend, there will be no change for you in terms of when Mushroom FM and Mushroom Escape programmes are on.

If you are in the UK and Europe where clocks fell back last weekend, the time change this weekend will restore the usual time difference.

In Australia, New Zealand and other countries that have put their clocks forward, it means that Mushroom FM and Mushroom Escape programmes will start yet another hour later.