After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 to 05:00, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac or smart speaker and join me for 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.
The show begins with the song that will tell you what tomorrow's date is, and has the longest instrumental intro of any song I know. Why? Just because!
We lost another rock and roll pioneer on August 22, Jerry Ivan Allison, best known as the drummer with The Crickets. I'll pay tribute to him playing four songs he co-wrote with Buddy Holly, along with his cover of the song that some Australian musicologists have suggested might be the first Australian Rock and Roll record.
Last week, I began a double celebration for my friends, John and Laurie, who celebrated both her birthday and their anniversary on consecutive days. As I have done for other listeners celebrating special occasions, I invited John and Laurie to suggest songs that are special to them, that they like, or both. Laurie sent me a list of superb songs that represent the sound track of our lives growing up in the '50s and '60s and I'm continuing to play them this week. If you were listening to the radio during the early years, I think you'll agree that these are great songs.
You can contact me any time by email at steve at mushroomfm.com with comments about the show; suggestions for "locus amoenus" songs which will return next week, and/or suggestions for future shows.
So join me, Steve Cutway, for The Early Years, when I make musical and magical memories with the calendar, Jerry Allison, and more of Laurie's songs, tomorrow afternoon at 05:00, after Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis and before Dan Sweeney's One Hit Wonders. The show replays Wednesday morning at 07:00 AM, after Deep Dive with Graeme Innes and before Anthony Unleashed with Anthony Horvath, only on Mushroom FM, the home of the fun guys, making four decades of magic mushroom memories!
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