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Revisiting February 4, 2023, this Week on come by the Hills!

Do you remember what you were doing on February 4, 2023? Likely not, but as music is a powerful trigger for memory, perhaps listening to this week's episode of Come by the Hills, originally aired on February 4, 2023, will bring that day back as though it were yesterday! Ah well, we can hope, can't we? The truth is that things are rather frenetic around here, in a good way thankfully, so I've decided to do a rerun of Come by the Hills despite my promise last week that I wouldn't.

R&B Influences: Lionel Hampton this week on The Juke In The Back!

The "Juke In The Back" focuses on the " soul that came before rock n' roll," the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
Lionel Hampton's big band was a training ground for so many of the all-time great musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Joe Morris, Dinah Washington, Wes Montgomery, Little Jimmy Scott and Clifford Brown.

Deep Dive takes that midnight train to Georgia

This week on Deep Dive we enjoy the wonderful music of Gladys Knight and the Pips. We feel like making love, meeting the one and only, and enjoying every beat of my heart.

Tune in at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 8 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, which is 10 PM in Eastern Australia. Your SmartSpeaker will understand exactly what you want when you say play Mushroom FM and whisk you there faster than you can sing cum bi ar.

Join Jonathan and Anthony for some classic kiwi music on our annual Waitangi Day special

It’s Jonathan Mosen dropping in to let you know that as has become a tradition on Mushroom FM, Anthony and I will be celebrating Waitangi Day, which is new Zealand’s national day. We’ll be playing three hours of great kiwi music, slipping in a few old radio and TV ads and talking about some interesting aspects of New Zealand culture. If you’re a new Zealander, you’ll be singing along and hearing songs you may not have heard for years. If you’re not a New Zealander, you may just hear a few songs that become your favourites.

Remembering the first major tragedy in the history of Rock and roll, "The day the music died", this week on the Early Years!

After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac, smart speaker or tablet and join me for The Early Years, where and when you'll hear the best music from the first quarter century of the Rock and Roll era with occasional nods to other decades and genres.

We're Previewing a New Loreena McKennitt Album, this Week on Come by the Hills!

There is very exciting news from Loreena McKennitt-land! On March 8th, 2024, her new live album, The Road Back Home, will become available. This is a collection of performances taken from a couple of different folk festivals she played at last year, and it consists of songs she sang during the earlier part of her career, traditional for the most part. Well, on tomorrow's show, we've got one of those songs for you on Come by the Hills, along with three hours of great Folk and Celtic music as usual. I can't wait!

Billy Joel is back, and we're celebrating on the next Mosen Explosion

Who said wishes can’t come true, eh? We had new ABBA music in 2021, even a new Beatles song in 2023, now Billy Joel has broken his long musical drought with a brand new song. No word yet on whether this is the first single from a forthcoming album.

Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: The Grapes of Wrath, and Oliver Twist.

Only on Mushroom escape:
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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Grapes of Wrath from 1940, and Oliver Twist from 1948.
The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford.
It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

Schedule changes for some of our shows

Changes to the Mushroom Fm schedule are rare, but we are now implementing the second phase of the 2024 schedule.

First, Gordon Luke is scaling back his G Spot show due to other commitments. He'll therefore no longer be heard at 11 PM Saturday, which repeated at 4 AM on Wednesday. But we're delighted that we’ll still hear Gordon
on his 4 PM Wednesday show which replays on Saturday morning. Starting this Saturday at 11 PM and next Wednesday at 4 AM, Ryan will be hear with the Groove Line.

James Brown: 1956-58 this week on The Juke In The Back!

The "Juke In The Back" focuses on the " soul that came before rock n' roll," the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
This week, the Juke In The Back features one of R&B and Rock n' Roll's greatest acts, James Brown.
Born into a poor community in South Carolina, James Brown worked his way to the very top in the entertainment business, but it wasn't without a struggle. As we'll hear on this week's program, Brown had to suffer through a mess of unsuccessful records, in order to find his "sound."

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