Self Help Radio 012720: A Lean Show/A Leaning Show

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A lean show!  A leaning show!  It's like two mediocre episodes of Self Help Radio in one!  (Yes, yes, I know "mediocre Self Help Radio" is redundant.)

What happened?  Why did this show happen?  Let's not kid ourselves.  Someone leaned on the show & said, "Let's make this a thing, this lean radio."  Was it a butcher consortium?  The publicists of the Leaning Tower of Pisa?  Or just some strange rich & powerful weirdo who likes to make this sort of thing happened because he can, like Bloomberg running for President?  Who knows?  The only thing that's certain is someone wanted this show to happen, & it happened, & somewhere some sick, sick person is giggling with glee like he'd just watched a baby bird try to fly & fail.  & this is the worst thing: it will happen again.

Well, not exactly like this.  Maybe with a show about deficit spending.  Hopefully that'll be a different radio program.  Meanwhile, if you'd like to hear this one, & there's no reason why you would, it's now at the Self Help Radio website probably up to no good.  For reasons that make more sense as time goes by, you'll need a username (SHR) & a password (selfhelp) to listen.  What was played on the show is listed below.

Oh all right, let's lean into this nonsense!

Self Help Radio Lean Show

"Lean Baby" Frank Sinatra _The Capital Years_
"Lean Jean" Bill Haley & His Comets _The Essential Bill Haley & His Comets_
"Long Leanie Woman" Lightnin' Slim _Rooster Blues_

introduction & strategy

"Lean On Me" Maurice & Mac _Windy City Soul_
"Lean On Me (When Heartaches Get Rough)" Eddie Jasper Daye's Four Bars _Rare Soul Heaven, Vol. 2_
"Pimping, Leaning, & Feaning" The Watts Prophets _Things Gonna Get Greater: The Watts Prophets 1969-1971_
"Lean On Me" Aretha Franklin _Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of Soul_
"Lean On Me" Bill Withers _Still Bill_

interview with Professor Etta Mology

"Lean Woman Blues" T.Rex _Electric Warrior_
"I Leaned On A Man" Connie Francis _Fallin' - Best Of The Early Years_
"Don't Lean On Me" Corrina Cord _The Laurie Records Story, Vol. 3 Girls & Girl Groups_
"Lean In When I Suffer" Speedy Ortiz _Twerp Verse_
"Demon To Lean On" Wavves _Afraid Of Heights_

Ned Dry shows you how to make a lean-to

"Lean-To" O'Death _Broken Hymns Limbs & Skin_
"She's Long & She's Lean" Mallard _Mallard_
"Lean On Me" Harry Nilsson _Knnillssonn_
"Lean On Me" The Housemartins _London 0, Hull 4_
"Lean On Me" Telekinesis! _Dormarion_

interview with president of the Lean People Leaning Society Karl Selzer

"Lean Period" Orange Juice _Coals To Newcastle_
"Leanin' On You" Joe South _Games People Play_
"Leaning In Chelsea" Eugene Mirman _En Garde, Society!_
"Lean In" Golden Daze _Golden Daze_
"Leaning On A Lamp Post" Herman's Hermits _The Best Of The EMI Years (Volume 1: 1964 - 1966)_

interview with self-help writer Buster Roll

"Lean" Archie Powell & The Exports _Black In Black_
"Leaning On The Backline" The Popguns _Pop Fiction_
"Lean Lanky Daddy" Little Ann _Dave Hamilton's Detroit Dancers_
"Leanin' On The Old Top Rail" Smilin' Billy Blinkhorn _Bushland Yodel_

conclusion & goodbye

"The Leanover" Life Without Buildings _Any Other City_
"Leaning On A Cane" The Delgados _Domestiques_