Skidompha Library's Owl Radio Podcasts

Hank Mobley’s tenor is hot in this here week’s music selections. Other than dat dere, we add some pickles, three little words, an Ellington medley and then head down the lonesome road. You’ll see what I mean. INTRO: Algiers Bounce Red Allen World On A String 1 Funk In Deep Freeze Hank Mobley Hank Mobley Quintet 2 Just Coolin' Hank Mobley The Capital Years 3 Ceora Lee Morgan, Herbie Hancock, Hank Mobley Cornbread 4 Pickles Allen Toussaint Sweet Touch Of Love 5 Dat Dere Bobby Timmons This Here Is Bobby Timmons 6 This Here Bobby Timmons This Here Is Bobby Timmons 7 Three Little Words/Sir Duke Bria Skonberg Into Your Own 8 C Jam Blues Larry Fuller Larry Fuller 9 Three J's Blues Novel Jazz Septet Novel Ellington And Strayhorn 10 Donna Lee The Marsalis Family Music Redeems 11 The Lonesome Road Herb Pomeroy & Donna Byrne Let's Face The Music And Dance

Gerry Beaudoin with The Kings Of Strings begin our program today. Included, at no extra cost, in this hour's episode of All That Jazz are Cassandra Wilson and a segment called In Blue. Here's the playlist: 1 Desert Sands Jay Geils Kings Of Strings 2 Lullaby Of Birdland Heather Masse & Dick Hyman Lock My Heart 3 Medley Dick Hyman & Ruby Braff Manhattan Jazz 4 Poinciana Jeff Hamilton Trio The Best Things Happen 5 Old Devil Moon Ahmad Jamal The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings 6 Moanin' Karrin Allyson In Blue 7 You Don't Know What Love Is Casandra Wilson Blue Light 'Til Dawn 8 Both Sides Now Tierney Sutton After Blue 9 Chan's Song Jacky Terrasson Rendezvous 10 Hankerin' Horace Silver Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers

Long-time Skidompha Library friend and Owl Radio contributor Bob Emmons sent us this eight-and-a-half minute recording of wintertime recollections and hard-earned wisdom that will give anyone--except maybe Minnesotans--a chill. (Note: can be used for summertime heat relief)

Part 2 continues with some California sounds. Included are vintage players, like Wingy Manone, whose names might make a fine baseball team. Listen to Nancy Harrow, one of the women of cool. Here's the playlist: 9 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To Chet Baker Chet 10 Satin Doll Oscar Peterson Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie Cleanhead Vinson 11 Body And Soul Red Allen 12 Walkin' The Streets Wingy Manone 13 Warmin' Up Roy Eldridge 14 I've Got The World On A String Nancy Harrow Wild Women Don't Have The Blues 15 Wild Women Don't Have The Blues Nancy Harrow Wild Women Don't Have The Blues 16 Ain't That A Peach Jeff Hamilton Trio Red Sparkle 17 Pent Up House Chet Baker The Italian Sessions 18 Blue Moon Ahmad Jamal Blue Moon 19 The Crickets Stacey Kent Ao Vivo 20 Tucker Avenue Stomp Monty Alexander Steamin' Hot 21 Hershey's Kisses Kathy Kosins To The Women Of Cool 22 My Buddy Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings And Swings OUTRO: Closing Time New Jazz Wizards Hoppin' Mad

The "California Sound" has been described as being light and airy. Chet Baker is an example of that sound. Part 1 features Chet, Dave Brubeck and lyrical sounds you may consider to be light and airy. We also introduce you to vocalist Stacey Kent. Here's the playlist: INTRO: Algiers Bounce Red Allen World On A String 1 The Route Chet Baker and Art Pepper The Route 2 Waiter, Oh Waiter Stacey Kent The Changing Light 3 Jivin' The Rhythm Duke Robillard & Herb Ellis Conversations In Swing Guitar 4 Little Girl Chet Baker and Art Pepper The Route 5 Deed I Do Diana Krall Live In Paris 6 Dark Eyes Ramsey Lewis Trio Down To Earth 7 Never Say Yes Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley 8 Love Is Just Around The Corner Dave Brubeck Quartet Trio Park Avenue South

Sketches co-producer Bob Emmons interviewed Schooner Cove resident Bob Hills about his experiences as an American who wound up as a pilot of a P-47 fighter-bomber over Europe. It's how he got there--via the Royal Canadian Air Force and combat action defending the UK in a Hurricane fighter plane, before switching over to the US Army Air Corps--that makes this worth listening to. Skidompha Sketches is a series of recordings of (mostly) local Maine residents or summer visitors with anecdotes, insights, recollections they wanted to share with us, similar to to StoryCorps recordings archived at the US Library of Congress. Like StoryCorps, our mission is to remind one another of our shared humanity, to strengthen and build the connections between people, to teach the value of listening, and to weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that everyone’s story matters. Let us know if you'd like to participate!

Skidompha Library friend and Blues historian Mark Addison put together yet another fine lineup of Blues artistry. Blues music influenced even the most innovative California musicians of the 1960s. San Francisco and Los Angeles drew blues aficionados who used some of the most expressive forms of the traditional music to create their own unique sound. Playlist: Grateful Dead Sittin’ on Top of the World 2:35 Good Morning Little School Girl 4:40 Janis Joplin Ball and Chain 10:25 Quicksilver Messenger Service Who Do You Love 19:22 Canned Heat Rollin’ and Tumblin’ 26:44 Spoonful 28:55 Henry Vestine Dust My Broom 31:24 The Doors Back Door Man 36:00 Ry Cooder Cherry Ball Blues 40:54 Dark is the Night 45:05

Bob Emmons sat down with his South Bristol friend Bob Buric, who recounted a truly remarkable event that took place when he was in Haiti, reluctantly, with a team there to rebuild a missionary school after a hurricane. Things didn't go as planned. Skidompha Sketches is a series of recordings of (mostly) local Maine residents or summer visitors with anecdotes, insights, recollections they wanted to share with us, similar to to StoryCorps recordings archived at the US Library of Congress. Like StoryCorps, our mission is to remind one another of our shared humanity, to strengthen and build the connections between people, to teach the value of listening, and to weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that everyone’s story matters. Let us know if you'd like to participate!

Skidompha Library's good friend tells of a couple unusual and unlikely Vietnam War incidents that happened to him.

Later British Blues, Part 2 Playlist, times and description Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, two of the most famous British rock bands, were influenced deeply by American blues and played versions of blues standards throughout their careers. All Blues from the Summer Room podcasts were edited and compiled by our good friend of Skidompha Library, Mark Addison. Intro from Love in Vain 2:17: Led Zeppelin I Can’t Quit You Baby 6:59: You Shook Me 13:26: Bring It on Home 17:47: When the Levee Breaks 24:49: Lemon Song The Rolling Stones 33:34: Little Red Rooster 36:38: You Gotta Move 39:10: Love in Vain 44:20: Blue and Lonesome 47:27: I Can’t Quit You, Baby 52:37: Everybody Knows About My Good Thing Them 58:22: Baby Please Don’t Go

Longtime Skidompha Library friend Betsy Noyes sat down with Skidompha Community Media Producer Mal Gormley in July 2017 to record her vivid experiences as a young child on the morning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and later. Betsy's father was an officer on the USS Tennessee, adjacent to the battleship USS Oklahoma when the Oklahoma was sunk by Japanese bombers. She also tells of being evacuated to the California and subsequent fun with her family and friends. Skidompha Sketches is a series of recordings of (mostly) local Maine residents or summer visitors with anecdotes, insights, recollections they wanted to share with us, similar to to StoryCorps recordings archived at the US Library of Congress. Like StoryCorps, our mission is to remind one another of our shared humanity, to strengthen and build the connections between people, to teach the value of listening, and to weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that everyone’s story matters. Let us know if you'd like to participate!

Blueberries for Sal is a children's picture book by Robert McCloskey. It was awarded the Caldecott Honor in 1949. This story features a little girl, Sal, and her mother as they go and pick blueberries for winter—and a bear cub and his mother as they go and eat berries for winter from the other side of the same hill. Set in a small town in Maine this picture book piece uses a single dark blue color and block printing for the illustrations. Sal and Sal's mother are modeled after McCloskey's daughter, Sally, and wife Peggy. This story was recorded by Senator Angus King, of Maine, for Skidompha Library on April 17, 2017. Image source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26509875

Later British Blues Part 1 - Playlist British rock bands in the later 1960s used American blues music to shape their own sound using innovative forms and techniques. These bands were instrumental in popularizing blues music for a younger generation. INTRO--When The Levee Breaks (sel.) The Yardbirds 3:47 Smokestack Lightnin’ 10:35 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 13:06 I'm A Man Cream 18:37 Outside Woman Blues 21:02 I'm So Glad 25:05 Spoonful 31:25 Crossroads Jeff Beck Group 37:08 You Shook Me 38:37 I Ain't Superstitious 44:28 Let Me Love You 49:12 Blues Deluxe Jack Bruce 58:05 Boston Ball Game 1967

This is the story of Fred, a female cat, why she was named Fred, and what she had to do to earn back the friendship of Susie, her best friend. It's an amazing story. Cats can be very talented, and Fred was no exception. This story was written by one of Skidompha's dearest friends, Bob Emmons, and read by Mal Gormley.

Room on the Broom is a British children's book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson, and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. In this lightweight tale, by the author of The Gruffalo, a witch on a broom-ride is soon accompanied by a cat, a dog, a parrot, and a frog who have helped the butter-fingered witch retrieve her hat, a ribbon, and her wand. After the broom breaks, they then meet up with a not-so-scary dragon who wants to have the witch for lunch. The loyal animals form a chimera who scares off the dragon. The witch repays her friends by conjuring a nicer broom for them all to ride. The story's rhyming and goofy suspense aren't groundbreaking, but readers will likely find it refreshing to see a clumsy witch. Ages 4-8. Published by Dial Books. Room on the Broom has been translated into 21 languages and has won 6 book awards, and since been made into an animated film. The animated film was nominated for an Academy Award for best short animated film in 2013. This version was read by Skidompha Library's Ter

American blues music began to be played in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s by bands that inspired and included young musicians who would go on to form some of the most popular and influential blues rock bands of the 1960s and later years. This program showcases some of the better known early British blues bands. All Blues from the Summer Room podcasts were edited and compiled and edited by good friend of Skidompha Library, Mark Addison. PLAYLIST Blues Incorporated, Alexis Korner, Cyril Davies Hootchie Cootchie Man 3:05 I Got My Mojo Workin’ 8:46 Graham Bond Quartet/Organisation Untitled Abbey Road Blues Instrumental 13:00 John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers Double Crossing Time 19:15 Ramblin’ on My Mind 22:15 Maudie 25:20 Hootchie Coochie Man 28:03 The Supernatural 32:43 Some Day After Awhile 35:40 Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac Heart Beat Like a Hammer 39:40 I Loved Another Woman 42:38 Cold Black Night 45:34 Shake

Here's a fun short story about Petey Wagner's dog named Wigglywoo, written by Skidompha Library's good friend Bob Emmons. Wigglywoo was a VERY smart dog who learned how to ring doorbells and everyone in the neighborhood liked him (except Mr. Sweeney, of course). This story was recorded by Mal Gormley.

The eponymous Yertle, king of the pond, stands on his subjects in an attempt to reach higher than the moon—until the unhappy bottom turtle burps and Yertle falls into the mud, ending his rule. Though the book included "burp", a word then considered to be relatively rude, it was a success upon publication, and has since sold over a million copies. In 2001, it was listed at 125 on the Publishers Weekly list of the best-selling children's books of all time. This story is wonderfully read by Skidompha's good friend Anna Belknap in August 2016.

"The Sneetches and Other Stories" is a collection of stories by American author Dr. Seuss, published in 1953. It is composed of four separate stories with themes of tolerance, diversity, and compromise. In "Too Many Daves" is a very short story about a mother, Mrs. McCave, who named all 23 of her sons Dave. This causes minor problems in the family, and the majority of the story lists unusual and amusing names she wishes she had given them, such as "Bodkin Van Horn," "Hoos Foos," "Snimm," "Shadrach", "Stuffy," "Stinky," "Putt-Putt", "Buffalo Bill," "Oliver Boliver Butt," "Biffalo Buff," or "Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate". The story ends with the statement that "she didn't do it, and now it's too late." This story is wonderfully read by Skidompha's good friend Anna Belknap in August 2016.

"The Sneetches and Other Stories" is a collection of stories by American author Dr. Seuss, published in 1953. It is composed of four separate stories with themes of tolerance, diversity, and compromise. In The Sneetches, some odd yellow creatures have stars in the bellies and others don't, which causes jealousy by those who don't. Sylvester McMonkey McBean (the Fix-It-Up Chappie) appears and offers the Sneetches without stars the chance to get them with his Star-On machine. When the original starred Sneetches see this they are upset and.... In the end, the Sneetches learn from their experience that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends. "The Sneetches" was intended by Seuss as a satire of discrimination between races and cultures, and was inspired by his opposition to antisemitism. This story is wonderfully read by Skidompha's good friend Anna Belknap in August 2016.