Self Help Radio 110221: Vacations

Do you need a vacation?  Wouldn't that be nice, especially as it seems to have become cold & rainy despite all objections?  If you can, please take a vacation!  If you can't, perhaps take a vacation show - which is this week's Self Help Radio.  Yes, it might be as dreary & dirty as your average highway motel, but at least no one's gotten bedbugs from a radio show!  (Not yet anyway.)

There's no air conditioning, pool or cable, but the first half of the show features songs just called "Vacation."  Why that would be a draw I'm not sure but it's the sort of accomplishment obscure radio deejays pride themselves on because no one gives them any encouragement.  Imagine what the show would be like if I were loved!  Oh, let's face it - there wouldn't be a show anymore.

How did I get from there to here?  I'm supposed to be talking about this week's show!  It's about vacations, it aired this morning on KBOO, & you can listen to it now & wherever (even on vacation!) at both the KBOO website & at the Self Help Radio website.  As usual, if you use the latter, remember the username (SHR) & the password (selfhelp).  What happens on the show is below.

Happy travels!

Self Help Radio Vacations Show

"Vacation" Connie Francis _Dreamboats & Petticoats_

"Vacation" Textones _I Can't Fight It 7"_

"Vacation" Critical Mass _Doctor Death's Volume IV: The Marvels Of Insect Life_

introduction & definitions (featuring the Definition-O-Tron 3000)

"Vacation" The Frogs _Unsealed: A Tribute To The Go-Go's_

"Vacation" The Concretes _Boyoubetterunow_

"Vacation" Duck Hunt _International Hip Swing_

"Vacation" Freezepop _Freezepop Forever_

"Vacation" The Gay _You Know The Rules_

a report from Self Help Radio Travel Correspondent Orville Francis

"Vacation (feat. J-Live)" Jazz Liberatorz _Clin D'Oeil_

"Vacation" Aaron Espe _Songs From A Small Town_

"Vacation" Beach Fossils _Beach Fossils_

"Vacation" Mermaids _Tropsicle_

"Vacation" The Blank Tapes _Vacation_

interview with Gary's radio friend Don

"Vacation" Onward Chariots _Take Me To Somewhere_

"Vacation" Florist _Holdly_

"Vacation" Chris Staples _Golden Age_

"Vacation" Sobs _Telltale Signs_

"Vacation" Pynkie _# 37_

a Self Help Radio rerun: Chuck talks about tourist films (from back in March)

"Endless Vacation" Ramones _Too Tough To Die_

"Felt Just Like Vacation" Bomb The Music Industry! _Vacation_

"Vacation Town" The Front Bottoms _Going Grey_

"The Meaney's Summer Vacations" Kevin Meaney _That's Not Right_

"Punk Vacation" Places To Hide _Strange Lyfe_

a discussion of popular vacation destinations

"Vacation Blues" T-Bone Walker _The Chronological T-Bone Walker 1947_

"Bo's Vacation" Bo Diddley _Bo Diddley Is A... Lover_

"Your Mind Is On Vacation" Mose Allison _Allison Wonderland: The Mose Allison Anthology_

"Permanent Vacation" Marion Sodd _Northern Soul Fever Volume Two_

"I Need A Vacation" Jim Backus _Andy & Pat's Groovy Cosmic Love Hour Record Collection (Funky 45s)_

"Vacation Song" Ruth Wallis _For Sophisticates Only_

a discussion of hip vacation idioms

"Natty On Vacation" Big Joe _At The Control_

"Useful Phrases While On Vacation In Russia (Introduction To Spoken Russian)" Eugene Mirman _I'm Sorry (You're Welcome)_

"Vacation In Tehran" The Judy's _Washarama_

"Two-Week Vacation" The Embarrassment _Heyday 1979-83_

"Summer Vacation" Presidents Eleven _Behind The Banana Curtain 1975-2000_

"Island Vacation" Louise Burns _Mellow Drama_

conclusion & goodbye

"Sad Vacation" Johnny Thunders _Hurt Me_

"Al's Vacation" Shack _Zilch_

"Big Vacation" Dressy Bessy _Come Out, Come Out_

"No Vacation" The Apples In Stereo _Travellers In Space & Time_

"Take A Vacation!" The Young Veins _Take A Vacation!_

"Brak's Hawaiian Vacation" Brak _Space Ghost's Surf & Turf_