Self Help Radio 120120: Magda's Birthday Show 2020

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Wow, three hours of birthday songs.  Holy moley.  I honestly didn't think I could pull it off.  I'm runnin' outta birthday songs, friends!

But this year I had a lot of help!  In addition to the interviews (which are listed below), I asked friends & family of Magda to send voice messages to me wishing her a happy birthday, & they are sprinkled liberally around the show.

But seriously.  Musicians I love: write more birthday songs!  I'll need three hours more this time next year.  Thank you!

Listen to the show when it's your birthday at the Self Help Radio website.  You'll need a username & a password to listen if you've not listened before.  I wish I could tell you what those are, & I can, they're "SHR" & "selfhelp" respectively, case-sensitive, no quotation marks.  What happens on the show, including the songs you'll hear, is chronicled below.

My wife is celebrating her birthday by going on a bike ride.  I'm going back to sleep.  I was up late!

Self Help Radio Magda's Birthday Show 2020

"Happy Birthday In Jail" Tall Tall Trees _A Wave Of Golden Things_

"Birthday Cake" My Name Is Music _Revolution_

"50th Birthday" Serengeti _Kenny Dennis LP_

introduction

"Birthday" Jenny Adkins _Birthday_

"25" Oh Pep! _I Wasn't Only Thinking About You_

"Happy Birthday" Clem Snide _Soft Spot_

"Birthday" Bari Koral Family Rock Band _The Apple Tree & The Honey Bee_

"Birthday" Broken Spindles _Inside/Absent_

interview with birthday gift specialist Marty Matthews

"Birthday" Carnival Youth _Good Luck_

"The Birthday Song" Field Mouse _Meaning_

"A Birthday Present" Sylvia Plath _Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poems_

"Birthday" Shallow _High Flyin' Kid Stuff_

"Happy Birthday" New Swears _Illuminati Knights_

interview with birthday gift specialist Garfield Gum

"Birthday" Caspar Babypants _Baby Beatles!_

"Happy Birthday Yeah! Yeah! Wow! Wow!" Orange Range _Panic Fancy_

"Birth" Charles Bukowski _At Terror Street & Agony Way_

"Birthday" Sierra Hull _Weighted Mind_

"Birthday Cake" Circa Waves _Sad Happy_

another episode of Chuck's Happily Unsophisticated Cinema Korner

"Birthday" Gia Margaret _There's Always Glimmer_

"Birthday Suit" Charlie Worsham _Beginning Of Things_

"Surprise Parties" Ali Siddiq _Damaged Goods_

"Birthday" Fenne Lily _Breach_

"Happy Birthday" Dwight Twilley _Always_

interview with the Rev Dr Howard Gently

"Happy Birthday" The Ting Tings _Yo Gabba Gabba: Music Is... Awesome! Volume 2_

"Happy Birthday" Luck Of Aleia _Six Songs_

"Birthday Song" Reversible Chords _Reversible Chords_

"Birthday Cake" Muler _The State Of Play_

"Happy Birthday" Uzeda _Out Of Colours_

a dip into previously rejected birthday tunes

"Happy Birthday Blues" Kathy Young _I Wish I Were A Princess: Great Lost Female Teen Idols_

"Adrian's Birthday" The Rascals _Freedom Suite_

"Birthday" The Invisible Cities _Watertown_

"Birthday Song (Death March)" Victory At Sea _Memories Fade_

"Birthday (MJ Cole Remix)" Disclosure _Energy_

conclusion & goodbye

"Happy Birthday Baby" Hiss Golden Messenger _Terms Of Surrender_

"Birthday" Dan Bern _Road Angel Project Volume 4_

"Don't Worry Happy Birthday" Yonder Mountain String Band _YMSB EP 13_

"Roller Rink" The Still, Small Voice _Roller Rink_

"The Birthday Song" Mac Davis _Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me/Stop & Smell The Roses_