Tuesday, March 08, 2022

Self Help Radio 030822: Harbors

(original image here*)

Self Help Radio this week was a nautical excursion - well, just as far as the harbor.  But what things you can see from the harbor!  & you don't have to get scurvy or anything!

In addition to lots of songs about harbors both real & metaphorical, we talked with two Captains, a cartographer, & our resident cinephile.  Honestly, I had almost nothing to do except play the songs.  Harbors are a bit like that - they're doing all the work, you're just hanging out.

You can listen to the show at all tides at both the KBOO web site or at the Self Help Radio web page.  You know if you go to the latter, you'll need a username (SHR) & a password (selfhelp), right?  I hope so.  All the things that happen on the show are below.

As Phil Ochs has sung, "Come & take the pleasures of the harbor... radio show."

Self Help Radio 220308 Harbors
"Harbour Blues" Lillian Miller _Texas Girls: Complete Recorded Works 1926-1929_
"Harbor Lights" Frances Langford with Sam Koki & His Islanders _The White Cliffs Of Dover_
"Remember Pearl Harbor" Eddy Howard & His Orchestra _The War Years_

introduction & definitions

"Harbor Of Love" Hank Thompson _Treasures_
"I Need A Harbor" Sue Thompson _Paper Tiger_
"Love Is A Sheltering Harbor" The Limeliters _Look At Love... In Depth_
"Harbor Melon" The Young Ones _Tobacco A-Go-Go Vol. II - '60s Carolina Psychedelia_
"Pleasures Of The Harbor" Phil Ochs _Pleasures Of The Harbor_

interview with our cartographer friend Rudy Jasper

"Temma Harbour" Mary Hopkin _Those Were The Days_
"Streets Of The Harbour" Jimmie Spheeris _The Original Tap Dancing Kid_
"Harbour" Mason _Harbour_
"Make & Break Harbour" Stan Rogers _Fogarty's Cove_
"At The Harbour" Renaissance _Ashes Are Burning_

interview with harbor patrol Captain Douglas Fair

"Certain Harbours" The Bongos _Drums Along The Hudson_
"Harborcoat" R.E.M. _Reckoning_
"Black Ship In The Harbour" Felt _Ignite The Seven Cannons & Set Sail For The Sun_ 
"Last Harbor" American Music Club _California_
"Martha's Harbour" All About Eve _All About Eve_

interview with tugboat Captain Tim Hicks

"Harbour Force" The Railway Children _Native Place_
"Harbor" For Against _Shelf Life_
"Cold Harbour Nights" They Go Boom!! _Just For A Day_
"Lost In The Harbour" Tom Waits _Alice_
"Safe Harbour Song" Kirsty McGee _Frost_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by to talk about movies with harbor scenes

"Love In The Harbour" The Bees _Octopus_
"Benton Harbor Blues" The Fiery Furnaces _Bitter Tea_
"Myriad Harbour" The New Pornographers _Challengers_
"Harbour" Perhapst _Perhapst_
"The Harbor Is Yours" Aesop Rock _None Shall Pass_

a brief digression into the etymology of "harbor"

"Hug The Harbour" Emma Pollock _The Law Of Large Numbers_
"Harbour Lights" Pocketbooks _Carousel_
"Blue Harbour" The Wave Pictures _Beer In The Breakers
"Danny Boyd (Low Tide In Harbor Town)" The Secret History _Americans Singing In The Dark_

conclusion & goodbye

"Harborview Hospital" Mark Lanegan Band _Blues Funeral_
"Quiet, The Winter Harbour" Mazzy Star _Still EP_

* "Capri Harbor" by vgm8383 is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0.

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