a literary confidence
Amazing time last night with Picture This and a focus on Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and the Great American Songbook. Please join host Wayne Cresser for a program of Kurt Weill and Jerome Kern at 6 PM, Sunday evening, March 29th, broadcasting on WRIU, 90.3 FM, Kingston and streaming at wriu.org.
Listen here to my second guest spot the Catunquit Chronicles Podcast with hosts James Allen and Ashland Comorack. Had a great time and had a chance to read a couple of my short stories, also to hear one of Mr. Allen's.
Listen here to Picture This 121: The Lines Blur, originally broadcast on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM (streaming at wriu.org) at 6 PM Sunday, March 15, at 6 PM. A little 2025 Movie Score music, Paul McCartney, Steve Martin, salutes to Ireland and Canada, plus some Rodgers and Hart. Who needs lines? Please tune in this coming Sunday, 3/22, Picture This with host Wayne Cresser, does a deep dive into the careers of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Picture This Playlist 120: Favorite Fakes (singers playing characters, actors playing singers), originally aired on the best commercial free radio in Southern New England, WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM (streaming at wriu.org) on Sunday, March 8, at 6 PM. Join host Wayne Cresser for the next episode of Picture This: Film Music on the Radio this Sunday 3/15, at 6 PM. One of the threads we'll be spinning is a salute to Canadian comedy.
Picture This 119: All's Fair in Love and War, which explored film and tv music related to both themes, was broadcast Sunday, February 15th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org). Join host Wayne Cresser on 2/22, when he takes a deep dive into Fabulous Fakes.
The Other Hitchcock was broadcast on Picture This: Film Music on the Radio on Sunday, (This program was broadcast Sunday, February 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org). Join host Wayne Cresser on Sunday, February 15th, for Oh! What a Ghastly War, music from mostly anti-war films.
"In the frothy days of hit parades and top forty stations that could in the space of thirty minutes serve up pop songs from Eydie Gorme’ to Frank Sinatra, jazz from Cannonball Adderley to Ramsey Lewis, garage rock from ? Mark and the Mysterians to the Standells, soul from Aretha Franklin to Otis Redding, psychedelic rock, blues rock, folk rock and novelty hits from alpha to omega, the occasional tribute song offered a wonderful little diversion." Read more of Wayne Cresser's Meta-hits of 1967: Spotlight on the Year Pop Music Celebrated Itself in Song, here on the Mischief Time Blog ...
Listen here to Gallant Gulls, Episode 55 of Catunquit Chronicles, for which your intrepid scribe was invited by hosts James Allan and Ashland Comorack to drop by for a chat and to read some of my short stories for their podcast. I am very thankful for the chance since it was a joy to talk about writing with people who appreciate it and do a fair amount of it themselves.
Happy to let all readers of the Mischief Time Blog know about the activities of Jamestown literary group, The Rhodeo Poets, whose active citizens have pulled together a monthly open mic at the popular Narragansett Cafe. If you're around. you don't want to miss it. And if you've got the work, they would love to hear it.
Hello Mischief Time Blog readers...Yours truly has been gone for a while, traveling the beautiful Canadian Maritimes, covering many miles on the Lobster Trail. More about that shortly; I’ve got some goodies on my plate that need to be shared. Much thanks and announcement about an upcoming live event!
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