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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | New | Approx. start time | ||
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Peter Gabriel |
On the Air / D.I.Y.
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Peter Gabriel | The Famous Charisma Label | 1978 | LP | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Motherlove |
The Perfect Place for Gentle People
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Motherlove | Wrong Way | 1971 | LP | 0:10:45 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
John Renbourn Group |
Blackwaterside
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One Morning in May: Surface Noise 2025 Marathon Premium | WFMU | 2025 | CD-R | for pledges of $75 or more! | * | 0:14:11 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
Los Bitchos |
Kiki, You Complete Me
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Talkie Talkie | City Slang | 2024 | LP | our first prize! | 0:26:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Lalo Schifrin |
Illya
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The Music from U.N.C.L.E. | Razor & Tie | 1997 | CD | 0:28:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Big Daddy |
I Want to Know What Love Is
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Meanwhile...Back in the States | Rhino | 1985 | LP | 0:30:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Los Bitchos |
La Bomba
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Live on Surface Noise | 0:41:56 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||||||
Sparks |
Do Things My Own Way
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MAD! | Transgressive | 2025 | MP3 | * | 0:43:58 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Maya Hawke |
Missing Out
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Chaos Angel | Mom + Pop | 2024 | LP | our next LP prize! | 0:54:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Ivy |
Get Enough
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Realistic | Seed | 1994 | CD | 0:57:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Maya Hawke |
Hang in There
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Chaos Angel | Mom + Pop | 2024 | LP | 1:01:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Linda Thompson Feat. Kami Thompson |
The Solitary Traveller
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Proxy Music | Story Sound | 2024 | CD | 1:04:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Isla Cameron |
The Lark
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One Morning in May: Surface Noise 2025 Marathon Premium | WFMU | 2025 | CD-R | * | 1:08:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Molly Lewis |
The Crying Game
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On the Lips | Jagjaguwar | 2024 | CD | Get in the running for this fun CD! | 1:18:25 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Don Robertson |
The Happy Whistler
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single | Capitol | 1956 | 45 | 1:21:01 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Ronnie Ronalde |
Ave Maria
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The Yodelling Whistler | Pegasus | 2005 | CD | 1:23:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Single File: a few 45s in a row for a much shorter time than usual |
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Bill Haley and His Comets |
R-O-C-K
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single | Decca | 1956 | 45 | 1:34:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Ann Peebles |
I Don't Lend My Man
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single | Hi | 1975 | 45 | 1:36:14 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Supertramp |
Dreamer
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single | A&M | 1980 | 45 | 1:40:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Janet Kay |
Silly Games
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single | Arawak | 1979 | MP3 | featured song in "Lovers Rock," one of the great films in the "Small Axe" collection I'm giving away | 1:49:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Bob Marley and the Wailers |
Small Axe
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Trenchtown Rock: The Anthology 1969-78 | Trojan | 2002 | CD | From 1971 | 1:53:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Errol Dunkley |
Darling Ooh
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single | Success | 1972 | MP3 | 2:03:50 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Myriam Gendron |
Look Down That Lonesome Road
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Mayday | Feeding Tube/Thrill Jockey | 2024 | CD | our next prize! | 2:15:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Anne Briggs |
The Cruel Mother
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One Morning in May: Surface Noise 2025 Marathon Premium | WFMU | 2025 | CD-R | * | 2:18:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Bermuda Triangle |
Dream On
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Bermuda Triangle | Winter Solstice | 1977 | LP | 2:23:18 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Myriam Gendron |
Dorothy's Blues
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Mayday | Feeding Tube/Thrill Jockey | 2024 | CD | 2:35:58 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru |
Ready to Leave
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Souvenirs | Mississippi | 2024 | LP | our final prize! | 2:43:02 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
Cyrus Moussavi on the show last year | Cyrus is the fella getting the music out there | 2:45:56 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||||||
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru |
Tenkou! Why Feel Sorry?
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Souvenirs | Mississippi | 2024 | LP | 2:48:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
Fotheringay |
The Low Lowlands of Holland
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One Morning in May: Surface Noise 2025 Marathon Premium | WFMU | 2025 | CD-R | * | 2:52:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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Big ups and good luck to Joe McG and all of lovely WFMU, DJs, volunteers, and listeners this marathon season. Thanks for all you do. ☮️🎶🫶May the pledges keep flowing in🍀🧧🖖💹🎸🔥
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☆ 📻 ⚡️Happy Marathon Everybody ! ⚡️ 📻 ☆
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“Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard” – Paul Simon
“Games Without Frontiers” – Peter Gabriel
“Generals and Majors” – XTC
“Young Folks” – Peter, Bjorn & John
“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”: Eric Idle/Monty Python
“Georgie Girl” – the New Seekers
“I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” – Whistling Jack Smith
“Here Comes My Baby: The Tremoloes
“The Whistling Song” – Meat Puppets
“Dock of the Bay” – Otis Redding
“Deep Blue Sea” – Grizzly Bear
“They’ll Soon Discover” – The Shins
“Pumped Up Kicks” – Foster the People
“Set the House Ablaze” – the Jam
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