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WNYC's Coverage of the Democratic National Convention
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Radio Rookies: Brooklyn Broadcast Workshop
On the Media: Challenging Convention
Street Shots Challenge
The No Show Archive
February 2006
Broken News
Sunday, February 26, 2006
New time-slot, but same old NO SHOW. This week, Steve Post leads off with The Broken News; then he reveals two more of his many vices; and finally he inducts Wilson Pickett into The NO SHOW Musical Necropolis. The music will make you stop and think, then forget what you were thinking and move on. As we all must.
PLAYLIST
THEME: “How Long Blues” – Jimmy Yancey, piano
“Silvio” – Bob Dylan
“John Wayne Gacy Jr.” – Sufjan Stevens
“Fool for a Cigarette” – Ry Cooder
“Cigarettes & Whiskey” – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
“Hey Bartender” – Koko Taylor
“The Edison Museum” – They Might Be Giants
“In the Midnight Hour” – Wilson Pickett
“Mustang Sally” – Wilson Pickett
“Teardrops Will Fall” – Wilson Pickett
Emptiness
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Steve Post relates his latest acquisitions: more mail order junk to fill his teeny apartment and his feelings of emptiness and anomie. In other business, Steve and Frank Millspaugh -- his producer, alter ego, and noodge (or is that “stooge”?) – report on “The Broken News.” And they induct the late Ibrahim Ferrer and Link Wray into The NO SHOW Musical Necropolis. (Originally aired 3 Dec.'05.)
Back in the Saddle
Saturday, February 11, 2006
More of Steve Post's adventures in hospital-land this week, as the afflicted one relates tales from his most recent illnesses and cites Oscar Levant as his role model. You will treasure Steve’s extraordinary rendition of "Back in the Saddle Again," for which the station expects to be sued by the copyright holder (and rightfully so). A kind of musical necropolis fills out the rest of the show, with selections by the recently departed Shirley Horn, R.L. Burnside, and Paul Pena.
(This is a previously-owned program first aired on Nov. 5, 2005)
Stand and Deliver
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Things get down to serious business on the occasion of WNYC's winter membership drive. Important issues are at stake, and Steve Post will not let you forget it this time.
Reflect on the many nanoseconds of pleasure you have received from The No Show. Consider the possibly okay times to be had in the future. Marvel at Steve's ability to say, "Your money or your life!" in seventy-two languages including Sanskrit (in which the phrase first appears). Listeners are advised to emulate the Colonel Pepper of ballad fame in his decision to "stand and deliver." Be listening. It's in your own best interests. The music selections this week are particularly predictable.