David Garland's collection of LP's includes lots of odd things, from Les Baxter's Music Out of the Moon to Oscar Levant playing Chopin to Jeri Southern's Jeri Gently Jumps. "I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. As a teenager, I was hungry for a means of understanding the world, which I found beautiful and shocking. The arts helped," says Garland, a musician in his own right. His Control Songs recently came out on Review Records in Germany, and a CD of his arrangements and performances of songs by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was released a few years ago in Japan. Garland, who began his radio career at WKCR, says that as a listener he "learned early on that public radio was the place to turn for really interesting music."

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