Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for December 30, 2017

From the frozen confines of the Doug Ashford Radio Room, we present a program largely made up of music Doug left behind on the BFR computer, assembled at the last minute to warm your souls. I'm having some problems with my computer, so I was assembling the show on the fly from the BFR library. I went for some of the basics, then filled in the gaps. Hope you enjoy.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for December 16, 2017

A very last minute production today, even more so than usual as of late. You may or may not appreciate that I've mostly (but not completely) ignored the upcoming holiday (or holidays) as I, myself, am not very jolly. (Can I qualify that sentence further? (or not))

 The second hour skews a bit towards difficult listening, but there are few festive numbers spread throughout. We continue our survey of Don Byron songs named after famous painters, and of Hal Willner tribute albums, plus a George Gershwin double-shot!

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for December 9, 2017

An interesting show. Recorded during some snow that was really not worth mentioning (not that that stops me). There's an annual event called the Somerville Holiday Stroll (or something like that) that's supposed to bring people out here to Union Square, so there's Christmas music blaring from the Media Center out into the square, and probably bleeding onto the studio mic (most audible during the break around the 50-minute mark). However, it seems people are afraid of being caught in the snow like the Donner Party, so there's not much of a crowd. We did have the fire department stop by as the folks in the TV studio down the hall were using a fog machine and set off the fire alarm, but it was over before it got a chance to liven up a mic break.

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Music-wise we start out jazzy as usual, although some Latin weirdness emerges in the second set. The BFR computer once again cuts off Joe Albany's "Nearness of You". The second hour freeform set is book-ended with stuff from Hal Willner tribute albums - the Nino Rota one and another from the Monk one. There's some early and late 20th century classical music from Central Europe taking up a lot of space in between.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for December 2, 2017

A qualified disaster. A freeform if not unformed program, marred by technical problems, mostly fixed here. Wait for the parts you'll like, fix yourself a cup of tea during the rest.

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