#232- original air-date- May 21, 2016
The “All 45-RPM Show” was a recurring event on the Bottomless Pit. Over the years I did one every 10-12 weeks. Here’s a typically eclectic one.

Part 1:

THE LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY- PARALYZED

THE LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY- I TOOK A TRIP ON A GEMINI SPACESHIP

THE LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY- WHO’S KNOCKING AT MY DOOR

THE LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY- DOWN IN THE WRECKING YARD

THE PHANTOM- LOVE ME

Segue 1

Part 2:

JULIUS LAROSA- EH CUMPARI

PRINCE- ALPHABET STREET

PRINCE- SHE’S ALWAYS IN MY HAIR

TOM JONES- KISS

THE TIME- COOL

PRINCE- EROTIC CITY

PRINCE- RASPBERRY BERET

Segue 2

Part 3:

THE DIAMONDS- ZIP ZIP

BUDDY KNOX- PARTY DOLL

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I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.)

I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand. 

It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me. 

I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!..

MC