Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: Build A Scarcrow Day

July 6 is Build A Scarecrow Day. Hm, looks like the person who built the scarecrow above didn't know what to with it afterwards. That's one reason we'll be tackling this important news story tomorrow - it's one thing to build a scarecrow, it's another thing to use it properly once it's built. Or maybe we'll just play lots of songs about scarecrows.

Find out by tuning in tomorrow, Sunday, July 6, from noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland & online everywhere at xray dot fm. At the very least we'll be demonstrating how to build a scarecrow that looks exactly like Dick Dickenbock.

This Week In Self Help: June 29 + July 1

(image from here)

Just one of those weeks where I only do my regularly scheduled shows.

The Dickenbock Report got muddy because it was International Mud Day.
Listen to the show on the XRAY website.
Listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website.

Self Help Radio had a show about clover.

Listen to the show on the KBOO website.

Listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website.

There were so many songs about clover I just played them on Corporate Standardized Programming.
Which is part of the KBOO file above.

But if you'd like to listen to it alone:
Listen to the show on the Self Help Radio website.

On the Self Help Radio website you might need a username & a password.
Try SHR & selfhelp respectively.

Fireworks are noisy all around, my dog Pauline doesn't like it so I'm going to go cuddle with her now.

Self Help Radio 070125: Clover

The month of July begins with a radio show about clover. & not just any old show - there are three hours of songs about clover on this show. Plus information! How could there be this much information about clover? I don't think I really even thought about clover before this show! If that's your situation, prepare to be surprised - but probably not surprised at the number of times you'll hear "clover" rhymed with "over." Between you & me I suspect that that's a contributing factor to singing about clover. If you're a singer who wants to rhyme.

Clover fans are in clover with this show! It's now at the KBOO website & also at the Self Help Radio website. At that website you may need the username SHR & the password selfhelp. I put the list of songs I played below.

You're lucky because KBOO is like a four leaf clover!

Self Help Radio Clover Show

"I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover" Joni James _Put On A Happy Face_

"I Found A Four-Leaf Clover" Al Miller _Complete Works In Chronological Order (1927-36)_

"Clover Blossoms" Riley Puckett _Old Time Greats, Volume 1_

"Burr Clover Blues" Muddy Waters _The Chronological Muddy Waters 1941-1947_ 

"Visit To A Four-Leaf Clover Farm" Bob & Ray _Classic Bob & Ray, Volume One - Selections From A Career: 1946-1976_

"Four Leaf Clover Blues" Bill Haley & Four Aces Of Western Swing _From Western Swing To Rock_

"Four Leaf Clover" Don Crawford _Teen-Age Dreams (Vol. 22)_

"Clover In The Meadow" Shirley Jones _Then & Now_

"Doctor In Clover" Kiki Dee _I'm Kiki Dee: The Fontana Years 1963-1968_

"Crimson & Clover" Tommy James & The Shondells _Crimson & Clover_

"Fields Of Clover" The Box Tops _Cry Like A Baby_

"The Proper Four Leaf Clover" Every Mothers' Son _Every Mothers' Son's Back_

"Michael Clover" The New Yorkers _Land Of Ur_

"Rollin' In The Clover" Lancelot Link & The Evolution Revolution _Lancelot Link & The Evolution Revolution_

"Spinning Coins & Wishing On Clovers" Sonic Boom _All Things Being Equal_

"Knee Deep In Clover" Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson _Lover's Heaven_

"Clover" Earth Wind & Fire _Head To The Sky_

"Four Leaf Clover" Blue Magic _Message From The Magic_

"Touch A Four Leaf Clover" Atlantic Starr _Yours Forever_

"Clover" Gospel Machine _Your Holy Ghost_

"Foaie Verde, Foaie Trifoi (Green Leaf, Clover Leaf)" Taraf De Haïdouks _Band Of Gypsies_

"Clover" Tall Dwarfs _Louis Likes His Daily Dip_

"Four Leaf Clover" Mighty Mighty _The Girlie Years_

"Clover Over Dover" Blur _Parklife_

"Clover Valley Road" Holiday Flyer _You Make Us Go_

"Finding Clovers" The High Water Marks _Polar_

"In Clover" The Wonder Stuff _30 Goes Around The Sun_

"Clover Paradise" La Femme _Rock Machine_

"Four Leaf Clover" Peel Dream Magazine _Rose Main Reading Room_

Whither Clover?

You must know that my show ideas come from the dumbest places. Not just the dumbest themes. Although I guess it's up to you if you want to think a theme is dumb.

Tonight's theme is clover. It was suggested to me by my backyard. Which is apparently full of clover. Not that I had noticed it. But my wife was complaining about it a few weeks ago. She said, "We hardly have any grass at all back here! It's all clover!" Truly I hadn't really looked. I said, "Where?" She said, "It's all over!" I took a picture.

Naturally I thought, "Would clover make a good theme for a radio show?" Because I am always thinking that. & I think it will be a good theme. It might also be a dumb theme.

Tonight! The first radio show in the first hours of July! Midnight to 2am. On 90.7 in Portland. Online everywhere at kboo dot fm. A radio show in clover.

Preface To Clover: The First Time I Ever Thought About Clover

(Red clover - image from here)

It may seem strange to be so certain - memories being what they are - but though I have nothing to support this but my own general sense of feeling & self - I think I can safely say the first time I heard or considered the idea of "clover" - & this would be as a plant with magical powers, because why else as a child would I think about it otherwise - happened in a Bugs Bunny short where he sang the song "I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover."

But you know how it is. You do a fucking search & you discover that Warner Brothers used that song all the fucking time. Cue playlist.

It was such a prevalent thing that for a time I believed a four-leaf clover would be something I hoped to find. I spent a childhood looking for magical things. I can confidently say I never found a four-leaf clover.

My dumb childhood is not the reason for this week's show. I'll tell you about that tomorrow.