Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Self Help Radio 080624: Loneliness


Loneliness is part & parcel of radio. While you might have many people listening, you are in general alone in a room with lots of humming equipment & very rarely with other humans. Okay, that's kind of the old-style deejay way. Some people do radio with friends. Some have talk shows. Some take callers. But the sort of the radio I do has always been tinged with a kind of loneliness. I remember a volunteer at Freeform Portland telling me she didn't think being on the radio would be so lonely.

It seems natural therefore to have a radio show about loneliness, yes? & that's what happened this morning on Self Help Radio. Songs about loneliness - not necessarily songs about being lonely - plus a discussion of movies featuring loneliness & three callers who shared with us their situation with loneliness.

Listen to the show now either at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, please remember the username & password to access/download the files. Those are SHR & selfhelp respectively.

Did the show make anyone feel less lonely? Oh dear me no.

Self Help Radio Loneliness Show
"All Is Loneliness" Moondog _More Moondog_
"Loneliness Is A Well" Anita O'Day _The Complete Anita O'Day Verve/Clef Sessions_
"Loneliness Hurts" Bobby Bland _Ain't Nothing You Can Do_

introduction & definitions

"Miss Loneliness" Mitty Collier _Shades Of Mitty Collier: The Chess Singles 1961-1968_
"What's With This Loneliness" Chuck Jackson _Good Things_
"Pit Of Loneliness" Gene Chandler _The Brunswick Years 1966-1969_
"Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive" Merle Haggard _Untamed Hawk: The Early Recordings Of Merle Haggard_
"Bad Fog Of Loneliness" Neil Young _Live At The Cellar Door_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by!

"Loneliness" Tuxedomoon _Half-Mute_
"The Well Of Loneliness" McCarthy _The Well Of Loneliness EP_
"Loneliness Is A Gun" The House Of Love _The House Of Love 1986-88: The Creation Recordings_
"Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness" Sandie Shaw _Hello Angel_
"Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness" John Prine _Great Days: The John Prine Anthology_

first caller to talk about loneliness: Chris

"Loneliness Finds Her Own Way" Clem Snide _Your Favorite Music_
"Loneliness" Robert Forster _Warm Nights_
"If Loneliness Was Art" Allo Darlin' _Allo Darlin'_
"Loneliness Is Better When You're Not Alone" Hello Saferide _Introducing..._
"Loneliness Kills" Boat _Tread Lightly_

second caller to talk about loneliness: Benny

"Love Or Loneliness" Math & Physics Club _I Shouldn't Look As Good As I Do_
"Loneliness" Nouvelle Vague _I Could Be Happy_
"Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets" Morrissey _California Son_
"Loneliness Is Power" Sallie Ford _Soul Sick_

third caller to talk about loneliness: Ariel

"Loneliness Is Cruel" Willernie _Betty_
"Loneliness Has No Home" Parkington Sisters _Collide_
"Loneliness & Sweet Romance" The Frank & Walters _Greenwich Mean Time_
"The Loneliness Of A Middle-Distance Runner" Belle & Sebastian _Sing... Jonathan David_

conclusion & goodbye

"Loneliness" Motorama _Dialogues_
"Loneliness On The Run" Metronomy _Small World_

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