I was trying to figure out a way to share the music mentioned in this podcast by creating a one-stop playlist for Apple and Spotify users, but I found neither service included all titles and materials. YouTube, however, had all the titles mentioned and offered the ability for a partial one-stop test drive of the episode’s content.

Cheeko’s Anthem, Summer Playlist and Recommendations

This Summer’s Anthem:
How can you resist a musical Star Trek episode, especially when Celia Rose Gooding belts out she’s discovered she’s good solo?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Episode 2E09 “Subspace Rhapsody”, Stardate: 2398.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTHgcpTshKs

Past Athems:

  • Paul Maurait’s “Love is Blue” Sign off music for the WBGH TV.  Back in the day when television stations didn’t run 24/7 It meant school was out and I was waiting for Sesame Street or Zoom to come on.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjsNNcsUNzE
  • Randy Newman: “Sail Away” – The chorus of the song was used for a local station’s ad for the July bicentennial, tall ship in Boston – it’s burned into my memory because while the chorus sounds very Copland-Americana, the song itself is a brutal satire on the slave trade as a version of the American dream.   Did the person making the ad know what they were doing? 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCRGrnhdNQE
  • Van Morrison: “Domino” – Big transition moment as I was Graduating from college and questioning what do I do with this bachelor’s in music. I guess I was feeling very rebellious in not wanting to take a well-trodden path.  It was also a song that this really cute guitar player in the third stream department liked.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiDcPUOD-vY
  • Garth Brooks: “The River” – I remember being really depressed and overwhelmed by my university job in Ohio, and was thinking about yet another transition – going back to school.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGNq60UMsdI
  • Raffi’s “Baby Beluga” – first time in California; road tripping with nieces and nephews, Aaron singing 1000 bottles of beer on the wall
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBY-LQYkVA
  • Rhiannon Giddens: “I’m On My Way” – This was my pandemic-era anthem as I was just getting the IRS non-profit status and planning our first community outreach project.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Xlyi8Is98

Playlist Must Haves & Recommendations:

These three selections were discovered in that tiny room at Alpina Haus in Aspen, Colorado. While I knew the Eagles from my sister’s 45 collection, I didn’t really pay much attention to the songs. Ironically, one of my fellowship duties was to play at Glen Frey’s wedding. We were set to play some Mozart Divertimentos and a special arrangement of “Desperado” which was lovely, but it was his former road manager that inspired me to rediscover the group’s classic songs.

Bonnie Raitt and the Williams were sort of sideways discoveries from the NPR show “A Prairie Home Companion.” The show was already finished but the local public radio station was playing repeats and compilations of their best moments but I knew I wanted to add the show to my road trip home. I went to the local music store in search of the PHC tapes I had seen somewhere in my memory banks, but they said they didn’t carry them. One of the salespersons recommended I try the bookstore nearby. I was grateful for the tip and as I was about to leave, I noticed Bonnie Raitt’s new release “Nick of Time” was on display on the counter and it had been playing in store as I searched. I liked it and I guess it anchored itself because I bought the tape before hitting the bookstore. I did find one PHC tape at the bookstore – the Third Annual Farewell performance, and on it was the song “Don’t Come Home a Stranger” by Robin and Linda Williams. It became a fitting addition to the playlist for my drive home.

*These are two radio shows from BBC that I heard when I was still in high school. The local classical music station, WCRB had a special show that aired right after the live Boston Symphony simulcast. It was hosted by Richard L Kay and was simply called WCRB Saturday Night. It featured sketch radio comedy shows from the BBC as well as music comedy. As a very young anglophile, I loved this show and tuned in every Saturday, placing my Radio Shack cassette recorder right up next to the speaker. One of my regular favorites was BBC radio’s “I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again” which featured a high-octane cast including a young John Cleese. In addition, Kay’s show introduced me to the late 70’s classic “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” I had managed to record a number of these shows and treasured these roughly recorded tapes for as long as I could but when my quartet job brought me to London for a week, I was determined to find the “real” cassette recordings. I found three tapes of I’m Sorry and the complete, unabridged radio version of Hitchhikers. That’s how far I had to go before the advent of Amazon, youtube and iTunes.

Adam’s Playlist, Anthem & Recommendations:


Anthem: Indigo Girls Hammer & a Nail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTI2GGNFR_U

Playlist Recommendations: Adam’s original playlists were based on the repertoire he was learning. Here are additional bits of music that he later added as the road scenery and destination elements to his listening

Ellie, Michael and little Theo’s Playlist and Recommendations:

Dan’s Playlist & Recommendations:

Andy’s Playlist:

Ever the adept programmer of themed concert lites and pops, Andy put together his “The Seinfeld Mix” – a collection of those hysterical moments from the series but in their original forms (or before being destroyed by Kramer and Miss Rhode Island)

…and finally, because he couldn’t get this local radio call-in program to play this one: