Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Archive is here.

Next week: First graders' poetry!

They Might Be Giants - Hovering Sombrero '05 (Here Come the ABCs)
Joe McDermott - My Cat Can Fly (Great Big World)
Justin Roberts - Great Big Sun (Great Big Sun)
Elizabeth Mitchell - You Are My Sunshine (You Are My Flower)
Ella Jenkins - A New Day's Coming Soon (Songs, Rhythms & Chants for the Dance)
Scribblemonster & His Pals - Beautiful Day (Chocolate Milk)
Bob Blue - The Baggins and the Took (More Than One Way)
Leonardo - Snow Day (Makin' Lemonade)
Fountains of Wayne - Valley Winter Song (Welcome Interstate Managers)
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Juanita the Spanish Lobster
Teacher and the Rockbots - Water Cycle (Science)
Matthew Sweet - Scooby Doo (Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits)
Bzots - Escape A Go-Go (Escape A Go-Go)
CandyBand - Rock, Paper, Scissors (More Candy)
White Stripes - We Are Gonna Be Friends (White Blood Cells)
Lunch Money - I Want A Dog (Silly Reflection)
Brady Rymer - Turn the World Around (I Found It!)
Gunnar Madsen - I Am Loved (Ants in My Pants!)
Milkshake - Dance On My Shoes (Happy Songs)
Gary Lapow - Diddy Bop Dinosaurs (Diddy Bop Dinosaurs)
Tarika Sammy - Hendry (African Playground)
Ella Fitzgerald - The Muffin Man
Jonathan Richman - El UFO Man
Langston Hughes - "Dreams" and "Youth" (Smithsonian Folkways Children's Music Collection)
Woody Guthrie - Why, Oh Why (Smithsonian Folkways Children's Music Collection)
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)
Steve Weeks - Silent E (Alphabet Songs Vol. I)
Ben Rudnick - Cowgirl Song (Live for VFR)
They Might Be Giants - ZYX (Here Come the ABCS)

We will be on live this Saturday from 8 to 10. Should be a fun show.

And not this Saturday, but the next (I think that's December 4 or so) we'll be playing all of the kids in Ella's first-grade class at the Smith College Campus School reading their poetry, and I can honestly say that it's great stuff. We're hoping to have more area kids participating in the show, so if you have some ideas along those lines, drop us a line (show AT sparetherock DOT com).

Finally, we also have a new promo featuring our new timeslot; hear it here, featuring some new show promo materials we got from Bzots.

Have a great holiday!

Archive here.

They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm (Severe Tire Damage)
Cathy Fink - Toom-Bah-Ee-Lero (cELLAbration tribute to Ella Jenkins)
Sammie Haynes - The Train Song (Nature's ABCs)
Brady Rymer - Water, Sand, Blocks and Clay (Look At My Belly)
Brian Eno - I'll Come Running (Another Green World)
Kevin Kammeraad - Stuck with a Frown (Tomato Collection)
Milkshake - Woo-Woo (Bottle of Sunshine)
Elizabeth Mitchell - Alphabet Dub (You Are My Sunshine)
Sho, Mo and the Monkey Bunch - Five Little Monkeys (s/t)
Prince - Starfish and Coffee (Sign O' The Times)
Ben Rudnick - Sally Salamander Live (Live for VFR)
Toure Kunda - Gatou Yo (I Am Fatou) (World Playground)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Kinder Words (Question the Answers)
Scribblemonster & His Pals - I'm A...(Anything I Like) (Chocolate Milk)
Mike Doughty - 27 Jennifers (Rockity Roll)
Candyband - Get Up Already (LolliPunk)
Bzots - Two Months Security Deposit (Powered Up!)
Michelle Shocked - Yamboree Queen (If Love Was a Train EP)
Jay Mankita - Wild Thing, Baby (The Day the Library Went Wild!)
Ben Folds - Gracie (Songs for Silverman)
Michael Franti - Closer to the Sky (Songs from the Front Porch)
Lunch Money - Roller Coaster (Silly Reflection)
Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops - Down in the Arkansas (The Bottle Let Me Down)
Babaloo - Freeze (Room for Everyone)
Daddy A Go Go - Adventures in Carpool (Cool Songs for Cool Kids)
Steve Weeks - Billy Bob's Breakfast (Alphabet Songs Aaron and his Aeroplane)
Laurie Berkner - I'm Gonna Eat (on Thanksgiving Day) (Whaddya Think of That?)
The Telephone Company - I Don't Wanna Shop (The King's Surprise?)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Ina Mina Dika (Let It Dee)
Ella Jenkins - Uskudara (Sharing Cultures with Ella Jenkins)
Dan Zanes (with Sandra Bernhard) - Thrift Shop (Family Dance)
Roger Day (with Nanci Griffith) - Parachute Girl (Ready to Fly)
Justin Roberts - Yellow Bus (Yellow Bus)
Trout Fishing in America - Wrong Right (It's a Puzzle)
Scribblemonster & His Pals - Play With Your Food (Chocolate Milk) (for Ella's mom's birthday!)
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul Live (Severe Tire Damage)

On Tuesday November 22, Bill Harley will be on "Talk of the Nation," NPR's midday news-talk show with Neal Conan and Liane Hansen. He will sing some songs from his new recording (One More Time) as well as read some short pieces from his new book (Dear Santa) and talk about entertaining families – kids AND parents. Bill will be on in the second hour. 2-4pm EST/ 1-3pm CST/ 12-2pm MST/ 11am-1pm PST.

Archive is here. And it rawks.

They Might Be Giants - C Is for Conifer (Here Come the ABCs)
Lucas Miller - Livin' in a Wetland (The Anaconda La Bamba)
Atlantik - All Aboard (Caribbean Playground)
Frank Black - Jumpin' Beans (Rev 105 Radio Archive)
Zak Morgan - When Bullfrogs Croak (When Bullfrogs Croak)
Elizabeth Mitchell - Froggy Went A Courtin' (You Are My Sunshine)
Can Kickers - Froggy
Paul Simon - Under African Skies (Graceland)
Samite - Munomuno (African Playground)
Lunch Money - Tricycle (Silly Reflection)
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
CandyBand - Playdate (More Candy)
Bzots - Escape a Go-Go (Powered Up!)
Daddy A Go Go - Go Speed Racer (Cool Songs for Cool Kids)
Dressy Bessy - Electrified (Electrified)
Roger Day - Mosquito Burrito (Rock 'n' Roll Rodeo)
Mr. T Experience - Up and Down
Telephone Company - Teeth (The King's Surprise?)
Ben Rudnick interview (includes Rainy Day, Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World, Cowgirl Song, and Sally Salamander)
Trout Fishing in America - What I Want Is a Proper Cup of Coffee (Family Music Party)
Josh Greenberg & Bill Vitek with the Mother Goose Jazz Band - Mad Man Polka (Rhythm & Rhymes)
Steve Weeks - If I Were a Cup (Alphabet Songs Vol. I - Aaron and his Aeroplane)
Zucchini Brothers - You Are What You Eat (In Your Garden)
SteveSongs - Opposite Day (Marvelous Day!)
REM w/ Billy Bragg - Tom's Diner
They Might Be Giants - Pictures of Pandas Painting

It has been pointed out that if you haven't watched the Telephone Company's video for Mustache (featured recently on our show), you haven't lived.

That may be overstating things, but still: go watch it. It is indeed outstanding, and if you've lived in Austin you'll find yourself saying, "Hey! I know that place!" a lot.

We had a ton of fun hanging out with Ben Rudnick and his friends Bruce and Arnie on Saturday. We'll be playing our talk with them and four terrific tracks they recorded for us on Saturday. Here are some pictures to tide you over.


Ben and our host Bruce, who guested on mandolin


Arnie the bass player


Ella

Remember -- this week is our first week in the shiny new 8 to 10 timeslot! And for those of you who were hoping to get one of those old collectors' edition t-shirts, we regret to inform you that we've updated the design to reflect the new timeslot. But you should still feel free to buy one, markup-free. A sample:

Starting this week, the show will be on from 8 to 10 am, rather than 6 to 8. Quick! Go buy a shirt in the shop, since the ones listing the 6-8 timeslot will no doubt be invaluable collectors editions, certain to make you a fortune!*

We're guessing more people will be awake for an 8 to 10 timeslot than the 6 to 8 slot, and hopefully we'll be a little perkier too...










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Thanks to ScribbleMonster to linking to our little show.

Welcome to those of you coming here from that link; make yourself at home (in some odd metaphorical sense) and let us know what you think!

As we mentioned on the air on Saturday, we may be changing to a slightly less crazy early timeslot -- 8-10 AM on Saturdays. You'll hear it here first. If, you know, we remember to post it.

Have a great week.

Archive of the show is here.

We had a great time today with Ben Rudnick and his friends Arnie and local hero Bruce. We'll be playing the songs they played for us next week along with a short interview. Thanks to Ben and Arnie for coming out here, and to Bruce for hosting us and providing some terrific recording equipment!

Here are the songs we played:

They Might Be Giants - No! (No!)
Thomas Fersen - Croque (French Playground)
Johnette Downing - Fish Dance (Music Time)
Beatles - Octopus's Garden (Abbey Road)
Taj Mahal & The Hula Blues - Great Big Boat (Caribbean Playground)
Justin Roberts - Willie Was a Whales (Yellow Bus)
Danny Adlerman & Friends - School Bus Driver (One Size Fits All)
Eddie Coker - Sadness Train (Hmmm...)
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Got My Own Thing Now (Hot)
SteveSongs - Elephant Hide and Seek (Marvelous Day!)
Two of a Kind - Love Makes a Family (Love Makes a Family)
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - This Land Is Your Land (Naturally)
Cornell Hurd Band - Don't Wipe Your Face On Your Shirt (The Bottle Let Me Down)
Thunder Lords - Ice Cream Headache (Noisy Songs for Noisy Kids)
Neko Case & AC Newman & Friends - Twin Cinema (Twin Cinema)
Scribble Monster & His Pals - Dance Party (Best of Friends)
Bzots - How Much Is That Elephant? (Powered Up!)
Candy Band - Blackbird (Lollipunk)
Reverend Horton Heat - Jonny Quest/Stop That Pigeon (Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits)
Jonathan Richman - El UFO Man
The Telephone Company - Mustache (The King's Surprise?)
Leonardo - Do it Myself (Makin' Lemonade)
Ben Rudnick - I Got A New Friend (Blast Off!)
Steve Weeks - Professor Poindexter P. Puggleston's Prepostrapercopopulataportapipplephone (Alphabet Songs Vol. II - Ivan Idea)
Lucas Miller - The Chimichanga Song (I Was a Supa-Dupa Pupa)
Claudia Martinez - Nichim Vuil (World Playground 2)
Trout Fishing in America - My Best Day (inFINity)
Elizabeth Mitchell - Jubilee (You Are My Sunshine)
Milkshake - Bottle of Sunshine (Bottle of Sunshine)
Brady Rymer - It's All How You Look At It (Look At My Belly)
Dan Zanes (with Loudon Wainwright III) - All Around the Kitchen (Family Dance)
Ralph's World - Fly Me To The Moon (At the Bottom of the Sea)
Billy Jonas - Bear to the Left (What Kind of Cat Are You?)
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul (Live) (Severe Tire Damage)