Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Self Help Radio 090324: Sunglasses


On this cloudy day in Portland I give you a radio show about sunglasses. What's worse is - the show happened at night. Ah well. It's always sunny somewhere on this planet!

Despite some technical difficulties, I think we covered the subject well - with some cool guests too. I did not wear sunglasses while doing the show - I make enough mess with what's left of my regular eyesight. But the show wore sunglasses.

Listen to that show at either or both the KBOO website & the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, remember the username SHR & the password selfhelp. Everything that happens on the show is below.

Two of the three most famous sunglasses songs are represented in some way on the show - the third I just find so awful I couldn't even consider adding even a small amount of it.

Self Help Radio Sunglasses Show
"Sun Glasses" The Shades _The Songs Of Pomus & Shuman_
"Dark Dark Sunglasses" The Kittens _Soda Pop Babies, Vol. 4_
"Sunglasses After Dark" Dwight Pullen _Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly_

introduction, definition, history

"Sunglasses" The Cloudwalkers _Wyld Sydes Volume 1 (American 60s Garage Bands)_
"Looking At The World Through Dark Shades" The Times _Pop Goes Art_
"Bury Me In My Shades" Shel Silverstein _Inside Folk Songs_
"Shades" Nancy Sinatra _Keep Walkin’: Singles, Demos, & Rarities 1965-1978_
"Sunglasses" The Fabulaires _Apocalypso EP_

interview with fashion consultant Maria Peterson

"Sunglasses" Tracey Ullman _Move Over Darling (The Complete Stiff Recordings)_
"Through His Sunglasses" The Claim _Armstrong's Revenge & Eleven Other Short Stories_
"Behind Your Sunglasses" Les Calamités _Les Calamités_
"Sunglasses" Space Ghost _Yeah, Whatever..._
"Sunglasses At Night" Jaymz Bee & The Royal Jelly Orchestra _Cocktail: Shakin' & Stirred_

interview with "the sunglasses guy" Mordecai Plant

"Autumn Sunglasses" Robyn Hitchcock _Robyn Hitchcock_
"Black Sunglasses" Mount Sims _Ultra Sex_
"Frost On Your Sunglasses" General Elektriks _Cliquety Kliqk_
"Golden Town With Sunglasses" Takagi Masakatsu _Wanna Buy A Craprak?_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by!

"Sunglasses" Flannery Brothers _Love Songs For Silly Things_
"Sunglasses" Recess Monkey _The Final Funktier_
"Sunglasses" The Fresh & Onlys _Early Years Anthology_
"Sunglasses, A Gun, & Distance" The Bran Flakes _Hey Won't Somebody Come & Play?_
"Dark Shades" The Splinters _Kick_

our resident anatomist Dr. Madeline Unicorn stops by!

"Sunglasses" Saturday Looks Good To Me _One Kiss Ends It All_
"Take Off Your Sunglasses" Ezra Furman & The Harpoons _Inside The Human Body_
"Catholic School Sunglasses" Mike Birbiglia _My Secret Public Journal Live_
"Cheap Shades" Chris Staples _Golden Age_

conclusion & goodbye

"Sunglasses" Black Country, New Road _For The First Time_
"Sunglasses At The Wedding" Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever _Sideways To New Italy_

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