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January 15, 2000

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  1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special Last Sessions SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFCD-40068/71

  2. The Limeliters: Generic Up-Tempo Folk Song (Larry Rand) Until We Get It Right! GNP CRESCENDO GNPD 2266 (8581 Santa Monica Blvd., #170, W.Hollywood, CA 90069)

  3. Mrs Ackroyd Band - David Knutson: Will the turtle be unbroken? (trad/L.Barker) Tubular Dogs Mrs Ackroyd DOG 014 (POB 95, S.District Office, Manchester, England M20 4LB)

  4. Andy Breckman: So Far So Good Proud Dad GADFLY 201

  5. Rhonda Vincent: Keep Your Feet on the Ground (Irl Hees) Back Home Again ROUNDER 0460

  6. Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues: Goodbye California Complementary Colors GADFLY 507

  7. John Flynn: Ain't This The Life A Manatee Sneezed On Me John Flynn JF005 (PO Box 71, Prospect Park, PA 19076)

  8. Michael Johnson: Ain't Dis Da Life (Michael Smith) Ain't Dis Da Life Sanskrit SR0774

  9. Dick Siegel: Happy Angels Aweigh Schoolkid's SKR 1519 (515-994-8051)

  10. Anita Silvert: Life You Live Midwest Girl Balancing Act BAM-003

  11. Pete Morton: Live Your Life One Big Joke GREEN LINNET GLCD3047

  12. Malvina Reynolds: What Have They Done to the Rain Sings the Truth Columbia CS 9414

  13. Bob Dylan: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Columbia CK 8786

  14. Anne Hills & Michael Smith: This Rain (Hills) Paradise Lost & Found REDWING RWMCD 5406

  15. Rick Fielding: The Wind and the Rain (trad/add.lyrics Fielding) This One's The Dreamer BOREALIS BCD119 (877-530-4288)

  16. Jody Stecher: Oh the Wind and Rain (trad) Oh The Wind and Rain APPLESEED APRCD 1030 (610-701-5755)

  17. Suzannah & Georgia Rose: Rain and Snow (trad) Across the Blue Mountains Private pressing (email.)

  18. Garnet Rogers: Underpass (Folkstage WFMT studio 10/9/99) WFMT recording

  19. Flanders & Swann: The Rhinoceros The Bestiary (from The Complete Flanders & Swann) EMI CDS 7974642

  20. Bill Cosby: My Pet Rhinoceros I Started Out as a Child Warner Bros. 1567-2

  21. Tom Paxton: Don't Be Rude to a Rhinoceros I've Got a Yo-Yo ROUNDER CD 8049

  22. Original Cast: The Unicorn In the Garden A Thurber Carnival Columbia KOS 2024

  23. Four Bitchin' Babes (Megon McDonough): Crazy (Willie Nelson) Gabby Road SHANACHIE 8028

  24. Les Barker: Reinstalling Windows (Folkstage WFMT Studio - 6/19/99) WFMT Recording

  25. Chip Taylor: hard drive times The London Sessions Bootleg TRAINWRECK TW010 (212-966-7443)

  26. Anne Hills & Michael Smith: Paradise Lost & Found Paradise Lost & Found REDWING RWMCD 5406 (PO Box 577575, Chicago, IL 60657)

  27. Heidi Muller: Lost and Found Giving Back Cascadia CM103 (206-528-2526)

  28. Liz Masterson & Sean Blackburn: Lost and Found Blues (E.Britt/J.Hand) Double Feature Western Serenade WSM101 (303-832-6614)

  29. Curtis & Loretta: Jean's Song (L.Simonet) Gone Forever Haymarket HM-105 (612-781-9537)

  30. Kat Eggleston: Trick or Treat Second Nature WATERBUG WBG 0005 (800-466-0234)

  31. Emile Belcourt (from studio recording): Plumbing (Cole Porter) Nymph Errant EMI CDC 7 54079 2

  32. Nancy White: Bet He Can Tango Gaelic Envy BOREALIS BCD 109

  33. Original Cast: Can That Boy Foxtrot! (Sondheim) Side By Side By Sondheim RCA Victor 1851-2-RG

  34. Thom Bishop: Mr. Arthur's Place Feed Me A Dream Coyote CCDF-1007 (213-656-5331)

  35. Amy Frandon: The Famous Dancemore Passion Angel Leo Rising Leo100 (General Delivery, W.Shokan, NY 12494)

  36. The Limeliters: The 40 Year Old Waltz (Spector/Gottlieb/Hassilev) Until We Get It Right! GNP CRESCENDO GNPD 2266

  37. John Flynn: Don't Make Fun of Middle-Aged People A Manatee Sneezed On Me John Flynn JF005

  38. Pete Seeger: My Get Up and Go (trad/Seeger) Headlines & Footnotes SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFWCD 40111

  39. Curtis & Loretta: Gone Forever (L.Simonet) Gone Forever Haymarket HM-105

  40. Tom Paxton: Your Shoes, My Shoes pre-release CD

  41. Kim & Reggie Harris: Free At Last (trad) Steal Away APPLESEED APR 1029

  42. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Address to Civil Rights Marchers In Washington, D.C. 8/63 Great Speeches of The Twentieth Century RHINO R2 70567

  43. Grace Griffith: Beautiful Fool (Don Henry) Grace BLIX STREET G2 10028 (818-763-9151)

  44. Harry Belafonte: Abraham, Martin and John (Dion Holler) Belafonte-By Request RCA LSP-4301

  45. Chip Taylor: We Just Roll On The London Sessions Bootleg TRAINWRECK TW010

  46. Anita Silvert: All Roads Converge Midwest Girl Balancing Act BAM-003 P.O. Box 512, Yardley, PA 19067 (215-369-0220) or email

Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parens ( ).

RICH'S PICKS:

John Flynn, Rick Fielding, Jody Stecher, Mrs Ackroyd Band, The Limeliters, Chip Taylor
These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Anne Hills & Michael Smith will be celebrating the release of their CD Paradise: Lost & Found, with Tom Dundee, at a Friendship Concert, Friendship Jr. High School, 550 Elizabeth Ln., Des Plaines, Friday, January 21 at 8. 847-255-5380

Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues, and Bonnie Koloc at the McAninch Arts Center of the College of DuPage, 22nd & Park, Glen Ellyn, Saturday, January 22 at 8. 630-942-4000

Curtis & Loretta will be appearing in the area twice: Front Porch Music, 505 Lincolnway, Valparaiso, Indiana, Friday, January 21 at 8. 219-464-4700
Two-Way Street Coffee House, 1047 Curtiss, Downers Grove, Friday, January 28 at 8:45. 630-969-9720

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