Self Help Radio 052422: Flowers (Again)

Here it is, the last of the "Hive Drive" KBOO Spring Membership Drive shows - we've previously covered bees & honey & stinging & buzzing - now we return to a theme previously covered by Self Help Radio in 2009.  The "flowers" show aired on WMUL in Huntington, West Virginia, in August of that year, & if you actually heard the show at that time, you would have been the only one.

This show was hopefully heard by maybe two people, & you can see below the songs are grouped (should I say "bunched"?) into specific flower sets - buttercups, sunflowers, lilies, daisies, roses, gardenias, violets - I didn't have time to get to sets featuring songs about daffodils, marigolds, & tulips, & I also had like an hour more of songs just called "flowers" - & in-between I talk to local florists & also try to raise money for KBOO.  That's the purpose of these shows!  If you haven't already helped, please do so now!

You can listen now & anytime at either the KBOO Self Help Radio page or at the show's website at Self Help Radio dot net.  At the show's website, use the username SHR & the password selfhelp to download the show.  Every song that's played, & the stuff that happens in-between, is listed below.

Please enjoy this lovely bouquet of a radio show.

Self Help Radio Flowers Show

"Flowers (Demo)" The Psychedelic Furs _The Psychedelic Furs_

"Flowers" Irma Thomas _After The Rain_

"The Flowers" Nits _Doing The Dishes_

introduction & definitions

"Buttercup (feat. The Neal Hefti Singers)" Neal Hefti & His Orchestra _Pardon My Doo-Wah_

"Build Me Up Buttercup" The Foundations _Build Me Up Buttercup: The Complete Pye Collection_

"Buttercups & Daisys" Strawberry Story _Clamming For It_

"Buttercup" Beezus _Lives Of The Saints_

"Buttercups" Dressy Bessy _Sound Go Round_

interview with florist Russ Campbell

"Sunflowers" The Baroques _Purple Day_

"Sunflower" The Springfields _Singles 1986-1991_

"Sunflower" Le Futur Pompiste _Your Stories & Your Thoughts_

"Sunflower" Mercury Rev _The Light In You_

"Sunflowers" Roy Ayers, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad _Jazz Is Dead 2_

interview with florist Jarvis Moynihan

"Lilies" Julie Tippetts _Sunset Glow_

"Lilies" Cranes _Loved_

"Calla Lilies" The Caribbean _Plastic Explosives_

"The Blackest Lily" Corinne Bailey Rae _The Sea_

"Lilies" Bedbug _I'll Count To Heaven In Years Without Seasons_

interview with florist Robby Turner

"Daisies" Doris _Did You Give The World Some Love Today Baby_

"Daisy A Day" Jud Strunk _Super Hits Of The '70s - Have A Nice Day, Vol. 11_

"Daisies" The Real Tuesday Weld _Where Psyche Meets Cupid_

"Daisies" Mean Lady _Love Now_

"Daisies" Pins _Hot Slick_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by!

"Roses" Milltown Brothers _Scared To Get Happy (A Story Of Indie-Pop 1980-1989)_

"Roses" Blouse _Blouse_

"Roses" Tomorrows Tulips _Eternally Teenage_

"Roses" Le Chat Mort _Roses_

"Roses" Camila Fuchs _Kids Talk Sun_

a discussion of "the language of flowers"

"Blue Gardenia" Dinah Washington _For Those In Love_

"Gardenia (feat. Bonnie Graham)" Rodd Keith _I Died Today_

"Gardenia" Kelley Stoltz _Circular Sounds_

"Gardenia" Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks _Real Emotional Trash_

"Gardenia" Iggy Pop _Post Pop Depression_

conclusion & goodbye

"Violets" Momus _The Poison Boyfriend_

"Sweet Violets" Dinah Shore _The Dinah Shore Collection_