Self Help Radio 020117: Apples

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"Who would know there were so many apple songs? Wow!" - commentary on the show on Twitter.

It's probably never a good idea to do shows about food.  (This might be why I've always threatened, but never have programmed, a show about cheese fries.)  (Also, there aren't really many songs about cheese fries.)  (Which is a tragedy.)  Doing this show about apples, I craved apples.  So many apple songs, no apples in the house or in my stomach.

Yesterday I went to Costco, & thought, "I'll buy some apples!"  Except, you know, you have to buy very many of things when you're at Costco, which is fine if those things don't spoil, but there was no chance, as much as I really, really wanted apples, that I could eat 24 of them before they went bad.  Instead, I bought - this is true - these:

Packaged, pre-sliced apples.  I haven't felt so American in such a long time.  But it was the only way I could buy eight apples at Costco, although it did cost more than if I had purchased twenty-eight.

But buy them I did, & yes!  I ate an apple while I did the show.  I lied about it on air, but I did eat an apple - one that was pre-sliced for me like I was an invalid in some kind of asylum - but a delicious apple!

Actually, I think they're Fuji.  Or gala?

The show about apples - which I hope will encourage you to eat more fruits! - is now at the Self Help Radio online orchard.  Pay attention the password & username if you want to get in, but once you're in - all the apples you can eat!  The menu is below.

(part one)

"Apples" Ian Dury _Apples_
"Appleseed Alley" Po! _Little Stones_
"Apple Pickin' Song" Sarah Silverman _Songs Of The Sarah Silverman Program_

"Eat An Apple" Burbuja _Burbuja_
"The Apple Stem" Young Legs _Promise Of Winter_
"Foot Apple" Coyle & Sharpe _On The Loose_
"Little Apples" Momus _Folktronic_
"Apple Scruffs" George Harrison _All Things Must Pass_

"Apple" Jawbreaker Reunion _Haha & Then What ;)_
"Apples & Oranges" Pink Floyd _The Best Of The Pink Floyd_
"Apple Cider" Ken Nordine _Wink_
"Apple Vines" The Autocollants _Why Couldn't Things Just Stay The Same_
"Apple Pie" The Heart Throbs _Vertical Smile_

"In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree" Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers _Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers_
"Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider" The Four Knights _Jivin' & Smoothin'_

(part two)

"Apple Pie" Jon Isherwood _Circus Days, Vol. 4_
"Apple Suckling Tree" Bob Dylan & The Band _The Basement Tapes_
"The Laughing Apple" Cat Stevens _On The Road To Find Out_

"Little Green Apples" Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell _Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell_
"Blessed Wild Apple Girl" Tyrannosaurus Rex _The Definitive Tyrannosaurus Rex_
"Apple Juice" Hannibal Buress _Animal Furnace_
"Apple Of My Eye" Remember Fun _Souvenirs From Egg Records_
"Underneath The Apple Tree" Grant Hart _The Argument_

"Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)" The Modernaires _Singin' & Swingin'_
"One Bad Apple" The Osmonds _The Fame Studios Story 1961-1973_
"Poison Apple" Popup _A Time & A Place_
"She Fakes Apples" Acid House Kings _Review I (Marsh-Marigold)_

"Apples" Saturnine _Popular World_
"Apple Song" Chicklet _Indian Summer_