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Every year around the time of her birthday, my wife gets a radio show featuring - not songs she likes, not songs she's picked out, not songs that make me think of her - but a show featuring songs about birthdays. I have made her a birthday show for twenty of the twenty-two years the show has been in existence. Please don't ask me what I was thinking in 2003 & 2005.
The thing is, I could play the Beatles song & the Altered Images song & the Sugarcubes song & all the birthday songs you're familiar with every year. But I don't. I don't repeat songs - or should I say, I don't repeat recordings - I have played covers of the Beatles song & the Altered Images song & the Sugarcubes song previously. What this means is I have to find mostly new birthday songs each year.
But that's fine! People write lots of birthday songs. But there's a problem! I don't like most of them. The coolest thing about having a radio show on a community radio station is that I get to play music I like. So I have to spend some time every year sifting through lots of birthday songs to find the ones I like.
But that's fine! People write lots of birthday songs. But there's a problem! I don't like most of them. The coolest thing about having a radio show on a community radio station is that I get to play music I like. So I have to spend some time every year sifting through lots of birthday songs to find the ones I like.
How did that turn out? You can listen to find out tonight from midnight to 2am on 90.7fm here in Portland or online everywhere at kboo dot fm. Yes there'll be guests. Yes there'll be cake. But only for me. The cake is for me tonight.
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